The calendar is becoming clearer for Saïd Chabane. The former president of the SCO Angers football club is summoned to the Bobigny court on June 7 to set the date for his trial for money laundering in an organized gang.
In this case, four people will be tried for “laundering in an organized gang”, explained the same source. Among the defendants, two were also dismissed for “complicity in the exercise of the activity of sports agent without a valid license” and the other two (including Saïd Chabane, according to his lawyer) for “exercise of the activity of sports agent without a valid license.
Saïd Chabane, 58, was released on Thursday, without judicial review, from his police custody which began on Tuesday morning. According to his counsel, who refutes the accusations, the former president is accused of having paid large sums of money to a recruiter who had brought several players over a long period and who, according to justice, acted as a player’s agent, without having a license.
His son Romain took over the presidency of the club
Resigning from his post as president since March 21, Saïd Chabane gave way to his son Romain. A first search, in June 2022, took place at the Angevin club and that of Saint-Etienne, as part of the investigation carried out in Bobigny. Of the three players’ agents then placed in police custody, only one had the license allowing him to practice this profession.
The club has been in deep crisis for more than three years. In February 2020, the entrepreneur was indicted for aggravated sexual assault, after complaints from six young women who were his employees. And sportingly, the club, the bottom of Ligue 1, is having a disastrous season, the result of a disastrous summer transfer window after the departure of almost all the executive players, who were all at the end of their contract.