PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Centurions]

So what was his reasoning behind those choices? Not exactly a random selection which makes it all the more likely that he was being paid to hack certain specific servers.

He's a Sporting fan hence the Benfica hack I think, the rest, you'd have to ask him. He stole money from the bank and tried to extort Doyen Sports. Nobody know who else he tried that with and whether he was successful. Being a whistle-blower has it's perks apparently.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

I expanded on my comment above, but if using a bank that money laundered was against the rules, every club in the world would be forced into keeping money under the mattress.

Well their bank sponsor got caught.

 

[Bez]

This one, I think:

The duty to cooperate - questions arising from the Man City v UEFA decision - LawInSport

This article is written by Björn Hessert, University of Zurich. By way of disclosure, Björn works as a research assistant for Prof. Dr. Ulrich Haas, who was one of the three CAS arbitrators in the Manchester City FC v UEFA proceedings. Björn would like to stress that he himself was not...

www.lawinsport.com

Thanks for sharing. Interesting article. Author says he was not influenced by Prof Haas, but happens to be his Research Assistant. Therefore, there clearly is a potential conflict of interest which undermines the objectivity of his article. Don't think he mentioned UEFAs leaks to the press during their investigation of City. Quite a significant omission which clearly impacted City's approach. Hopefully the PL process can be sorted out before next season.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Are they not highly detailed scouting reports including personal details and character reports at the very least? They're not going to just be "he's really fast but can't defend for toffee" reports.

Well yes, but it wouldn't be private information from the individuals that the club has a duty to protect, surely? I suppose it will have been gathered from the club's own sources? I suppose it could have included details about current club players for reference. The club would then have a duty of care?

 

[halfcenturyup]

Thanks for sharing. Interesting article. Author says he was not influenced by Prof Haas, but happens to be his Research Assistant. Therefore, there clearly is a potential conflict of interest which undermines the objectivity of his article. Don't think he mentioned UEFAs leaks to the press during their investigation of City. Quite a significant omission which clearly impacted City's approach. Hopefully the PL process can be sorted out before next season.

It was clearly bullshit dressed up to make it look like the CAS decision wasn't his boss's fault. Difficult to take it any other way ....

 

[threadkiller]

it was always going to be a 2 1 decsision when uefa and city nominated a panel memeber

And the Premier league gets to pick all 3 members for their own panel (albeit via the totally impartial method of picking the guy who picks the panel)

 

[WRicko]

But that example refers to breaking the law.

City haven't been accused of breaking the law, we've been accused of breaking arbitrary rules relating to funding sources and disclosure.

For example a lot of posts are citing our accounts being audited as proof of innocence. The auditors were proving that our accounts were legal, they had no remit to check that they complied with specific PL rules.

We are not accused of breaking the law but some expert posters on here say what we are accused of amounts to false accounting / fraud it would logically have tax implications.

 

[WRicko]

Pinto (or whoever) hacked our email servers, not Liverpool's.

He also hacked Benfica's, Bayern Munich's(?), Doyen Sports (hence the Ronaldo alleged rape emails), a bank in the Cayman Isles, the Portuguese police team investigating him plus one of the judges in his case and many, many others.

That doesn't mean he's hacked the entire world.

Still begs the question why we are the only ones feeling the affects of his hack

 

[SSBlue]

We are not accused of breaking the law but some expert posters on here say what we are accused of amounts to false accounting / fraud it would logically have tax implications.

For charges such as sponsorship income, passing an audit doesn't make any difference. The auditors see payments from Etihad and check the tax etc on that. They're not going to investigate where Etihad got their money from.

Accusations such as third party payments to Mancini might have tax implications. Although more for Mancini than the club itself.

 

[halfcenturyup]

We are not accused of breaking the law but some expert posters on here say what we are accused of amounts to false accounting / fraud it would logically have tax implications.

False accounting and fraud would be criminal acts, imho.