FC Nantes has been indicted as part of an investigation into suspicious player transfers, for complicity in a certain number of irregularities committed by sports agents. The football club was indicted on September 21 as a legal entity represented by its president, Waldemar Kita, the Rennes public prosecutor, Philippe Astruc, told AFP, confirming information from the newspaper West France.
Last June, still as part of this investigation, it was Franck Kita, deputy general manager of FC Nantes and son of Waldemar who was indicted, along with Bakari Sanogo and Joaquim Batica, the two agents of certain Nantes players. They are accused of “money laundering, aggravated money laundering, laundering of tax fraud, exercising the activity of sports agent without a valid license”.
Very useful nominees during transactions
Initially launched by the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office which then transmitted it to the French judicial authorities, the investigation notably highlighted the fact that “the leaders of FC Nantes would have used it on a recurring basis, at least since 2015 , to the employment of unauthorized sports agents by establishing sports agent contracts and player employment contracts under the cover of nominees, both in the context of player transfer negotiations and in the framework for negotiating player employment contracts. »