In the “Kita in custody” family, I would like the father! After the placement in police custody on Wednesday of Franck Kita, son of the owner of the club, Waldemar, it was the father who was entitled to the same treatment according to information from our colleagues from West France. The boss of the Canaries therefore spent a few hours on Wednesday answering questions from the police, before being released.
As for his son Franck, the placement in police custody of Waldemar Kita falls within the framework of the judicial investigation opened in Rennes for “illegal exercise of a sports agent activity (…), forgery and use of forgery, abuse corporate assets, laundering of aggravated tax evasion and organized gang laundering”.
Doubtful transfers to FC Nantes
The day before, Tuesday, the Rennes prosecutor had confirmed to AFP a “double placement in police custody (of the two agents) within the framework of the rogatory commission of the investigating magistrate”, without further details.
The two agents in question, Bakari Sanogo and Joaquim Batica, manage the interests of several FC Nantes players but only the second city would have an official agent license allowing him to carry out transactions and collect commissions within the borders. French. “More generally, justice has been investigating for three years now the movements of suspicious players and the commissions received”, specify our colleagues from Ouest France.