Two years after Boca was stolen 519,000 euros at the Paredes pass, we still have no news of those who kept the money

In january 2019 Leandro Paredes He went from Zenit of Russia to the mighty Paris Saint Germain of France. The Parisian club had paid a figure close to 40 million. Paredes, who wears jersey number 5 of the Argentina national team and number 8 of the team in which Mbappé, Neymar and Ángel Di María play, has emerged from the lower teams of Boca Juniors. And that’s why The entity of La Ribera was going to have 1,299,377.48 euros that the French club had to pay.

Payment is provided for in article 21 and appendix 5 of the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players.. This is a contribution of solidarity for the rights to the training of players.

In 2019, it was agreed to pay the millionaire’s sum in three installments. The first of 519,750.99 euros was agreed for March 6, 2019. The second of 259,875.50 was to be paid in August 2019 and the third, similar in amount to the first, was agreed for August 2020.

The truth is that the first installment he was never billed by Boca although he was paid by Paris Saint Germain. Silver – as revealed Infobae– found out about an account created by someone who scammed the Argentinian club. In the exchange of emails for Paris Saint Germain to receive the data to make the transfer One person was confused who created an email address similar to that of a Buenos Aires club employee. By this maneuver, he sent false information to the Argentinian in charge of finalizing the details of the transfer of euros from France to Argentina.

Boca executives realized that when they demanded payment of the first installment from their Paris Saint Germain counterparts in France, they explained that they had sent the money where it was indicated. In Boca, they discovered that the data to make the transfer was being sent to the process manager from an account that claimed to be that of a club employee but in reality the domain of his email was it was bocajuniors.com.an, bocajunions.com.ar or bocajuniors.com.ar, instead of bocajuniors.com.ar.

Boquenses executives realized that they had been victims of the computer hoax known as Business Email Compromise (BEC). The trap is to use mailboxes which differ by letter from those of the company and thus pass themselves off as a manager / employee of the company or club. From a false story but very similar to the real ones, a conversation is initiated or intervened in the conversations of others who do not realize that the story is apocryphal. Typically, the scam is meant to hijack money transfers. Fact that happened in the case of Boca and Paris Saint Germain.

The French explained what had happened and accompanied the emails in which they established that the money had been paid. But he had never reached Boca. It was after verifying that the data had been sent to make the transfer from an account similar to that of an employee of Boca, the leaders of Boca lodged a complaint which fell to the federal judge. Ariel Lijo and the prosecutor Federico Delgado.

Information from France assured that the deposit had been sent to a bank account in Mexico in the name of a company called OM IT Solutions SA de CV. Before his arrival in Mexico, the money had passed through an account – of which he was the correspondent – of Citibank in New York which belongs to the Vector Casa de Bolsa, also Mexican.

Based on this information, Lijo sent letters requesting legal cooperation from three countries and thus identifying the holders of the euros. In addition, testimonials were collected from Boca employees who participated in the e-mail exchanges. One of the assumptions made by investigators is that a person at the club who dealt with good internal information “contaminated” the emails to send the money to the overseas account.. The results of a computer expertise are still awaited to analyze the content of the computers of Boca employees involved in the incident.

Judge Lijo requested by exhortation to question in France Lucas Vigneron, Grégory Durand Yes Nicolas meynier who intervened on behalf of Paris Saint Germain in the negotiation with Boca for the agreed payment. This exhortation received a response from France and the French reaffirmed what they had previously explained by mail: that they were following La Boca’s instructions. In addition, a court case has been opened in France to investigate what happened.

The judge also requested the cooperation of the Mexican authorities to find out who owns the company OM IT Solutions SA de CV since the money was deposited in an account belonging to him. He also requested all the information relating to transfers and other movements made from January 2019 until the start of the investigation in May 2019. As explained to Infobae judicial sources, again -when two years have elapsed- No response was received to Lijo’s request in Mexico.

Lijo also sent a call to the United States to try to determine who is behind the account the money went through in New York City. Faced with the initial request for information from the United States, they responded with a request for details on the situation with emails from Boca and Paris Saint Germain. The Lijo court asked Boca in its capacity as plaintiff to provide the requested information. To this first response from the United States, they again asked for more details.

In other words, France sent whatever was requested, the United States asked for more details, and Mexico did not respond to requests made from the Comodoro Py building to try to determine who got the money. which belonged to Boca. Meanwhile, time flies and those who have won more than half a million euros with the Paredes pass are in peace. At least for now.

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