Independiente: now they threatened three judges who ruled against the club

The crisis in Independiente adds another chapter. Behind the resignation of Fabian Doman to the presidency, in the last hours, the judges of the Labor Court Number 2 of Avellaneda received threats a few minutes after an appeal was filed by the club in the case of Gonzalo Verón.

The court composed of Adriana Terlizzi, Carolina Bocchio and Javier Traversoy arranged days ago that the club pay 2,300 million pesos to the soccer player Verón who initiated a labor lawsuit against the institution. Wilde’s training ground is a guarantee for this trial, if the Court decides that the sentence remains final, the player will demand payment of the debt and that could mean the financial bankruptcy of the club.

This Wednesday a Extraordinary Appeal to review that sentence and minutes later the magistrates began to receive threats on their private social networks and what was even more worrying was that one of them received intimidating calls on his cell phone.

Messages appeared on the social networks of one of the judges with knife emoticons and phrases such as: “Take care that you know the consequences” “do not say that we did not notify you”, among others.

The magistrates filed the complaint before the Prosecutor No. 4 of Avellaneda in charge of Dr. Mariano Zitto who ordered police protection for three labor judges Terlizzi, Bocchio and Traversoy.

Veron case could reach the Court

In this context, Labor Court Number 2 must define whether the labor lawsuit filed by Gonzalo Verón against Independiente will go to the Supreme Court of Justice after the club presented an Extraordinary Appeal after what was the ruling that sentenced the payment of 2,300 million pesos.

In collateral for this trial is the property of Wilde de Independiente. The player will demand the payment of the debt and that could mean the financial bankruptcy of the club, even if it is not declared in that situation in terms of the Law, but would be intervened by Justice.

The Law that protects Independiente in the event of not having the funds is 25,284, which is also known as the Law of Sports Entities with Economic Difficultieswas sanctioned in mid-2000 and its main objective was that civil associations, such as all Argentine soccer clubs, could not file for bankruptcy and thus protect young people and children who carry out sports activities there.

If a club finds itself in this situation, it will not be declared bankrupt as the Law establishes, but instead it will be intervened by the Justice, and through a receivership it will regulate the income of the institution, having the power to decide on how and how the money is spent, always assuming that its intention is to pay off all the debts that ended up in that situation.

The word of Gonzalo Verón

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Verón signed a contract on January 24, 2018 and that from that moment the club began to accumulate a debt with him that was never paid. “I got to sit down and talk with (Héctor) Yoyo Maldonado (Independiente’s secretary in the Moyano administration). We had several conversations about that debt. He came to give me three checks, but then he asked me please not to deposit them because it was not the time since they could close the account due to lack of funds. That was at the Hotel Scala where the team was concentrated, I remember it well. We decided to protect it at that time. But the checks expired and they were never replaced”Verón indicated.

“This is how debts accumulated and they never paid me. I decided to go on loan to Aldosivi because of all this conflict that was arising. They (for the leaders of Independiente) had to pay me half my salary and the other half, Aldosivi. They didn’t pay me either “I spent a year in Aldosivi and I never received a peso from Independiente. When the contract with Aldosivi ended, I went back to CAI and they fired me in the middle of the pandemic. This is how all the debt began to accumulate,” closed the footballer.