Gazeta Sporturilor presents the document on which basis Gigi Becali asserts that the money from the case “Valise” were meant to buy a land, one of the witnesses being the coach
The Valise case, which shocked the Romanian football on the last lap of the last season, is in full process at National Anticorruption Directorate. Just before the lot reunion for the match with France, Victor Piţurcă was called to hearing by the prosecutors, as a witness, in the first the place. This was the role of the coach in this story, according to the document through which Gigi Becali tries to demonstrate that those 1.700.000 euro which Teia Sponte had, before the match between Universitatea and CFR, were not for the motivation of the host players, but foe buyong a land in Cluj. Gazeta Sporturilor entered in the possession of this document.
Becali’s defense
That document is a hand-written pre-contract, with capital letters (facsimile 1). With no date, the above-mentioned document specifies that Gigi Becali would have made an agreement with a land bargainer, Marino Gh. Radu, for the amount of 1.700.000 euro. The amount had to be paid in cash on 7th may 2008; just in the same day in which Teia Sponte was arrested by the prosecutors in Cluj, with that amount of money in the luggage carrier of his car. When it comes about witnesses, after a Mr. Volcinshi Raul, it appears, written with different characters, the name of the coach, and also his signature. This seems to be authentic, being very much alike with another one, which, Victor Piţurcă gave with the occasion of a message for Gazeta’s readers. (facsimile 2)
Accused of perjury?
In spite of some divergences appeared in the press when Victor Piţurcă left Steaua, in 2004, the coach and Gigi Becali are very good friends. According to the last information, the NAD (National Anticorrupt