a court composed of three judges will be the one that finally judges footballer Neymar da Silva Junior and Barça president Josep Maria Bartomeu for corruption and fraud in the signing of the striker to the Brazilian fund DIS, which had 40% of its federation rights. This will happen after, according to sources of the National Court, the head of the central court of instruction of this court, José María Vázquez Honrubia, has referred the case to the Criminal Chamber of the Court so that the distribute among one of its sections.
In this way, instead of judging Vazquez Honrubia himself to Neymar and five other defendants, it will be a three-judge tribunal, which will be decided according to the distribution rules. The decision of Vázquez Honrubia is based on the fact that the private accusation represented by DIS has requested that Neymar be convicted of a crime of continued fraud, which, according to the Penal Code, carries penalties of up to 6 years in prison, when his court can only judge cases with a maximum penalty of 5 years. for this crime 5 years in prison for Neymar, although, according to the judge, the penalty in the abstract, that is to say, the one set out in the law, is up to 6 years, so it would not correspond to his court. In this case, judge a presumed fraud to the fund DIS, which had 40% of the federative rights of Neymar and who sued against the player to feel deceived in his signing by Barca in 2013. DIS also claims 5 years in prison to the father from Neymar, as as the president and Barca president Josep Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell, and a fine of 195 million euros to the club.
The Prosecutor's Office of the National Court, for its part, requests 2 years in prison and 10 million euros of fine for Neymar and 5 years in prison for Rosell, the latter in provisional prison and will be tried in February for another reason that leads to National Audience on money laundering of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF). The public prosecutor, who does not accuse Bartomeu, also claims a fine of 8.4 million euros for Barcelona and 7 million for the Brazilian Saints, from where Neymar came when He was also booked by Barça in 2013. He also requested 2 years in prison for Neymar's father and 1 year for his mother, both for the crime of corruption in business, the same that he accused the son, and also requested a fine of 1.4 million euros for the family business N & N.According to the prosecutor, in this case, known as the Neymar 2 case, Rosell agreed with the father of the PSG striker "with the intention of hiding the real cost of the player", that afterwards He knew it had amounted to 83 million euros.