The escape of a former Osasuna executive comes to an end after six days: "He is already in prison"
The former director of Osasuna Jesús Peralta García entered the Pamplona jail this Thursday “voluntarily” to serve his five-year prison sentence, legal sources report. “I prefer not to know where he is,” his own lawyer said late this Thursday in conversation with El Confidencial. “I could have entered yesterday, I could have entered today, or I could have entered tomorrow”.
The Supreme Court confirmed Peralta's conviction last January, considering it proven that the club's Board of Directors paid players to fix matches in the 2013-2014 season: “The president, two directors and the manager agree with two Real Betis footballers, who have ancestry in the dressing room, to pay them 650,000 euros so that they beat Valladolid (who was fighting for permanence in the category like Osasuna) and lose against the Navarrese club “.
The investigation into what is known as the Osasuna case also revealed that more than two million euros had been extracted from the club's accounts irregularly, so that in addition to the crime of sports corruption, the sentence included misappropriation and document falsification: “When this amount is detected by external control bodies, an attempt is made to cover up or cover up”. “The same thing happens with a loan that asks a fan for 600,000 euros that the Osasuna football club ends up repaying, without the destination of such investment having been proven”.
The former manager of the club, Ángel María Vizcay, the former president, Miguel Ángel Archanco, and the former treasurer, Sancho Bandrés, were also convicted of these events.. Vizcay entered prison on July 27 and, a day later, the other two did the same, but after not hearing from Peralta, the Navarra Court requested his capture: “Include this search warrant (request) in the computer system and in the automated files of the Security Forces and Corps”.
According to the resolution itself, his defense had communicated that he was in Valencia, but when asked by El Confidencial, the lawyer denied this information: “You would have to ask the person who gave the information, because it does not conform to reality.”.
Peralta had already tried to postpone his imprisonment for medical reasons and the Court of Navarra rejected this request, ruling out “a very serious illness with incurable conditions.” His lawyer will now return to the fray with the same argument to request his release, but after what happened in the last six days, he faces a new challenge: proving that there is no flight risk.