In 2015, several events occurred within Spanish basketball involving Marcus Slaughter and Andy Panko, players at the time for Real Madrid and Fuenlabrada, respectively. The truth is that they both got passports in Equatorial Guinea for the Endesa League season, which means they stopped occupying a non-EU position. Until then everything seemed to be correct, but later it was revealed that the documents were false and there arose a legal problem that is still ongoing.
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The Spanish Basketball Federation discovered this when it realized that the numbering was the same for both, and then started an investigation with the Higher Sports Council to take the appropriate measures. The consequences, however, will be more serious for Slaughter, who will take advantage of this condition not to occupy a non-EU position in a Madrid that already has two, the most that can be called in competitions in basketball in Spain, while Panko did not use the documentation for that benefit.
The case was opened in recent years after a season in which it was stopped, with FC Barcelona as part of the accusation, because according to the regulations of the Federation, Slaughter’s line in the games he played in this passport will be automatic loss and it. means that Real Madrid will lose the League and Cup titles won this season, with the second team becoming the champion, which in this case is the Barça team.
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Now, almost 10 years later, the process is still open and, according to RAC1the arrest of Marcus Slaughter has been ordered. This order will be of an international nature because there is no record of the former Real Madrid player’s whereabouts. This medium assures that the investigating judge demanded a 16-year prison sentence in addition to a fine that will make the American pay 12 euros per day for eight months. All this, after getting all the information about the case and studying it, and Slaughter himself confirmed this matter in 2017.
He explained that Julián Aranda, who was his agent in 2015, was the one who pulled all the strings on the passport and asked him for $35,000, later saying that someone from Real Madrid gave it to him, however the club has always denied that this was the case. In the accusation, in addition to Slaughter and Panko, the aforementioned Aranda, Hugo López, will also be included; who is the coach of the Equatoguinean Malabo Kings, and Richard Nguema, also a player and the son of a diplomat from Equatorial Guinea.
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About all this, in BE Sports There have been talks about the issue and the possible consequences it could have for Real Madrid. “Barça is waiting for what will happen because it hopes that a punishment will give the player the titles in 2015,” explained Francisco José Delgado, director of the program, however, he believes that this will not happen. “I have the impression that things will remain as they are in the sporting aspect, in the legal and police aspects that those who understand will say,” Pacojo pointed out.
Alfonso Ojea, editor-in-chief of the Courts and Justice section of Chain of SERemphasizes that “next November 5, Marcus Slaughter will sit on the bench, or we hope he will sit, in the Criminal Courts of Madrid accused of a crime of falsifying a public document such as a passport. The innovation “Now, due to the lack of location of this person to prosecute, an international arrest warrant has been issued,” he said in response to doubts about his whereabouts. We must be careful this next month to see if the Californian shows signs of life and shows justice to Spain.