Six former La Liga stars have been accused of fraud as half of their function in an organization that was trying to promote cryptocurrency and Non-Fundgible Tokens (NFTs) in their likeness. Regardless of not taking part in a task in the gross sales, nor the technique of the operation, the footballers have been included in the authorized criticism.
As defined by El Periodico and quoted by Marca, the heads of the corporate Shirtum Europa has been accused of fraudmongst different fees. They had been intending on promoting to €3m price of NFTs and cryptocurrency, however then shut down manufacturing earlier than stated ‘items’ went in the marketplace by Shirtum.
Six players all performed for Sevilla
The six players accused of fraud as half of the case are Ivan Rakitic, Javier Saviola, Nico Pareja, Alejandro ‘Papu’ Gomez, Lucas Ocampos and Alberto Moreno. The players are alleged to have had an ‘lively function’ in promoting the tokens, and in explicit, Gomez had an in depth relationship with one of the 4 main minds behind the operations, David Rozencwaig.
Each Gomez and Rakitic are accused of wrongdoing.
Rozencwaig, alongside Manel Angel Torras, Marc Alberto Torras and Manuel Morillas had created an utility to promote NFTs of the six footballers, and had been as a consequence of put them in the marketplace for €450 every. They then obtained funding from exterior backers – the folks behind the lawsuit – however Shirtum closed the applying earlier than it went stay. Neither the blockchain cryptocurrency or the NFTs at any level held any worth.
Cryptocurrency on the rise in Spanish soccer
The presence of cryotocurrency and NFTs has been on the rise in latest years. After La Liga banned betting firms from sponsoring shirts for skilled groups, a number of sides entered into partnerships with groups like Valencia. In the meantime Barcelona have released their own NFTs, and sold 24.95% of Barca Vision to Socios, a major blockchain company, to the tune of €100m. Nonetheless Barcelona have since been forced to seek new buyers for those shares, with Socios not paying up the cash.
