“No indications have been obtained that indicate the existence of criminally relevant facts,” says the letter. It was due to a complaint by the former goalkeeper of the Paraguayan team against the president of Conmebol
Chilavert accused Domínguez of criminal association, money laundering, breach of trust and tax evasion
The Specialized Unit for Economic Crimes and Anticorruption of Paraguay asked the criminal judge to dismiss the complaint filed by José Luis Félix Chilavert against the president of Conmebol, Alejandro Domínguez, for criminal association, money laundering, breach of trust and tax evasion.
The former goalkeeper of the Paraguayan national team accused the head of the entity in charge of regulating soccer in South America of having received a payment of 1.5 million dollars for a bribe in the FIFA Gate case.
In the case, which was officiated by prosecutors Liliana Alcaraz Recalde and Francisco Cabrera Sanabria, the dismissal of the complaint was concluded by means of a writ for “the absence of any punishable act.”
The former footballer maintains that Domínguez, when he was president of the Paraguayan Football Association (APF), received the aforementioned sum from a check from Banco Continental, drawn up by the former administrative director of Conmebol, at that time Cesar Rene Balbuena López. This complaint was initiated by the former athlete in 2021. “What José Luis Chilavert said from Argentina, in his 13 tweets, is true and is supported by journalistic publications and journalists are summoned to testify in this oral trial,” Chila’s defense justified. . In his complaint, he also included other alleged criminal acts, such as the alleged receipt of some 374 thousand dollars in fees and gratuities.
It is worth noting that the Public Ministry of Paraguay summoned Balbuena López and regarding the alleged bribery, stated that “no checks of such an amount have been prepared for Associations or Individuals, at most notes are prepared that are taken to the presidency and treasury so that they can be carried out. transfer or preparation of a bank check and all these operations are of an institutional nature”.
“In view of the reasons set forth -by Chilavert-, this Fiscal Representation considers that once the collection procedures have been exhausted, elements of conviction and based on the expertise carried out, no indications have been obtained that indicate the existence of criminally relevant facts in relation to the hypothesis that has been set at the time of the initiation of the investigation, “the prosecutors concluded.
It is worth noting that, in parallel, Alejandro Domínguez filed a case for defamation, slander and insult against José Luis Felix Chilavert, which It is currently in oral proceedings. There was already a first face-to-face between the two earlier this month.