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I have a very good read about Barcelona's corrupt ex-president, Sandro Rosell, but it's in Portuguese so I'll try to summarize it here.
In 1999, in Brazil, a CPI (Parlamentary Inquiry Comission) was created to investigate if Nike forced Ronaldo's presence in the 1998 World Cup's final, since he was deemed "unfit to play" by doctors and had convulsions moments before the game, culminating in Brazil losing to France by 3x0.
Five months after the CPI was created, Rosell came to Brazil to take over Nike's business in Latin America, and became partner with Ricardo Teixeira, the then president of CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation). While Teixeira lobbyed to have the CPI closed (he succeded), Rosell took care of the legal part.
The CPI found out Nike's contract with CBF allowed them to basically rule the Brazilian National Team, choosing who would play, which events the National Team would attend and even choosing who Brazil would play against in exhibition games. They found out Teixeira had recieved money from Nike to pass this contract, his money laundering and did... absolutely nothing. The CPI was closed in 2001 and to this day Nike still rules our national team.
In 2001, Rosell founded the marketing company Brasil 100%, along with financist Cláudio Honigman and the former AmBev (the Brazilian beer company that bought Budweiser) executive Alexandre Barreira Leitão. Formally Teixeira had nothing to do with it. Formally.
Brasil 100% did a lot of money laundering and signed some shitty contracts and went unnoticed until 2006, when Meinolf Sprink, who was Sports Director for Bayer AG, owners of Bayer Leverkusen, revealed that he was approached by a Brasil 100% executive who asked how much Bayer was willing to pay to have Brazil's national team training at their facilities for the 2006 World Cup. And yes, they were officially representing CBF.
Also, Teixeira, Rosell and Honigman moved (is this expression used in English?) over R$45mi (over U$20mi) through fraudulent stock sales.
Brasil 100% is no longer active and Honigman left the country. He's now being investigated by Federal Police (our FBI equivalent) ofr involvment with Alberto Youssef, who laundried over R$10bi (a little less than 5 billion dollars) for corrupt politicians.
With Brazil 100% closed, Teixeira (in the shadows) and Rosell (officialy) took over Alianto Marketing, a company founded in May of 2008 by Eduardo Duarte (who's in other corrupt schemes). In 02/07/08, Rosell and his secretary, Vanessa Precht, took over Alianto. In two months, their capital went from R$800 to R$ 12.8 million.
In November 2008, Alianto organized an exhibition game, Brazil vs Portugal, that granted them R$9 million. All the costs were paid with public money through Distrito Federal's (a Brazilian state) ex-governor José Roberto Arruda (who was actually arrested for corruption and money laundering, but released because of his "frail health"). Theoretically, the rights to organize Brazil's exhibition games belonged to ISE, and Arab company, but they gave these rights to the Spanish company BSM, who appointed Alianto. By the way, BSM also belonged to Rosell.
When asked by public prosecutors about the event and Alianto's trustability (since the whole thing was paid with taxpayer's money), Alianto send a BSM "letter of recomendation", written by Marta Rodriguez, Rosell's wife at the time, saying that Alianto organized serial sport events such as the Sierra Nevada's Ski World Cup in 1996 (8 years before Alianto even existed).
Investigations found out that both the plane tickets for the teams and their hotel stays were overpriced. Also, Alianto recieved the ticket money, despite the whole thing being paid with public money.
In July 3rd, 2011, Rosell rode the bus that took Brazil National Team players to Ciudad de La Plata, where they would play a game, and stayed at their hotel. There, he became friend with Neymar, and, months later, signed a transference deal for Barcelona, but only in May of 2013 this came to public. The negotiated amount was 35 million euros, but Jordi Cases, one of Barcelona's big heads, noticed an embezzlement of 40 billion euros in the transaction. In January 2014, the paper El Mundo reported that the whole value was 95 million euros.
Rosell was forced to admit that the deal cost Barcelona 57 million euros more than revealed, and quit Barcelona's presidency, but not before giving Teixeira almost R$7 million when he fell in disgrace and was forced to flee Brazil and went to live in Boca Ratón.
By the way, Alianto still exists and was found not-guilty for corruption here in Brazil.
but the part about Ronaldo in 1998
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