Alfredo Álvarez Cuevas, vice president of Cruz Azul, pointed out to Ignacio López Medina, a manager of La Celeste Machine, as the person responsible for inflating players, in his statement before the Specialized Deputy Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime Investigation (SIEDO), after he offered to collaborate in the investigation that the UIF initiated, against he from his brother Guillermo Álvarez, team president, and Victor Garcés, his brother-in-law.
“There is talk of the representative Ignacio López Medina, who is supposedly dedicated to the arrangement between the team and representatives, and what he mentions is that these arrangements move under a series of unclear practices. A folder with the list of players, amount and value of cards of each footballer was delivered, ”reported lawyer Guillermo Barrada, representative of the party that accuses Guillermo Álvarez, manager Celeste.
In the statement, to which he had access ESPN, it is read that Alfredo Álvarez indicates López Medina as the person in charge that the Blue Cross acquire players at “unrealistic prices” during the management of Eduardo Yayo de la Torre and Ricardo Peláez. At the same time, he handed folders to the authorities, so that these transfers can be traced and a new line of investigation is opened now in the club.
“I never saw a single contract or spoke of numbers in transfers or player salaries,” he said. Ricardo Peláez, when he retired from Blue Cross, in the program Spicy Soccer.
Ignacio López’s participation in Blue Cross was corroborated by himself Guillermo Álvarez Cuevas the day of the presentation of Jaime Ordiales, current sports director of Blue Cross, and there is a record that since 2012 he collaborates with the institution as a Legal Advisor, he is in charge of all the institution’s contracts.
“They are part of a council or staff, but Robin has no decision-making or management, both he and other people, such as Ignacio López Medina, They also carry out some tasks entrusted to them, ”said Guillermo Álvarez, on December 20, 2019.
The players who are singled out for acquiring a premium are Jonathan Cabecita Rodríguez, Orbelín Pineda, Antonio Sánchez and Misael Domínguez, “who in my opinion were very high-priced operations that were finally negotiated by IGNACIO LÓPEZ,” he declared.
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