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Gianni Infantino and Valdimir Putin. – Mladen ANTONOV / AFP
The series of Football Leaks continues. After PSG, Manchester City and the
AS Monaco, Mediapart is now tackling the issue of Russian clubs, Zénith Saint-Petersburg in mind. According to the documents peeled by Mediapart and its EIC partners, representatives of Zenith, interviewed on November 12, 2013 in Nyon (Switzerland) about their partnership contracts, openly acknowledged that Russian clubs were heavily subsidized from the perspective of the 2018 World Cup.
The club is owned by the state-owned Gazprom, which injected 113 million euros in 2012, much more than financial fair play allows, put in place in 2013. "In the secret agreement signed in May 2014 with the investigative chamber, violations of the rules are carefully erased. And the Zenith avoids the exclusion of European cuts, "writes Medipart.
Football Leaks: The boss of Man City directly financed the sponsors of the club to circumvent the FPF https://t.co/Do6KIDqwRx via @ 20minutesSport pic.twitter.com/618rGnVACL
– 20 Minutes Sport (@ 20minutesSport) November 6, 2018
"At the end of the day, the ICFC's investigating chamber spilled the $ 245 million Gazprom injected between 2011 and 2013, and allowed an additional 360 million euros over the next four years. still read in this paper of our confreres. In short, UEFA has validated financial doping for 605 million euros over six years. "
Lokomotiv and Dynamo also spared
But the Zenith is not the only Russian club to have benefited from both the injection of a large amount of public money and the leniency of UEFA. This is also the case for FC Lokomotiv and Dynamo Moscow.
⚽ #FootballLeaks: Season 2 | The #Russia infuses the Putin club, the#UEFA close your eyes – by @yphilippin & @michelhenry. https://t.co/l6QtQS3kHg
– Mediapart (@Mediapart) November 6, 2018
"According to the calculations of our partner The Black Sea, continues Mediapart, in the five years since the introduction of financial fair play in 2013, companies with a majority of public capital have injected 1.65 billion euros into these three clubs because of artificially inflated contracts. "
Despite investigations by the Club Financial Control Body (ICFC), UEFA has never sanctioned these numerous offenses to their seriousness. It is worth remembering that Gazprom, the Russian gas giant, became in 2012 the main sponsor of the Champions League for an amount of 40 million euros per year …
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