A court of Madrid has admitted to step a complaint for crime against the intellectual property presented by Sogecable against the managers of Mediapro, Jaume Roures Llop and José Maria Benet Ferrán, and linked to international emission of football matches of a 'illegal' way, according to the accusation.

In the complaint writing it is said, according to a Sogecable press release, that Mediapro 'pirated' football matches of League expressed by Digitalis + and offered them 'illegally to foreign platforms of television, which expressed them directly and in deferred'.

According to the complaint, Roures and Benet 'sold football matches of the Spanish League to international operators knowing whom they were lacking some right on such parties'.

As for another said complaint presented by a crime of swindle, it was signed by Audio-visual Sport (AVS, the operator on rights of television of which she is a majority shareholder Sogecable) and Joan Majó was going in addition to against the said ones, against Daniel Margalef i Sosa, and Cross, José Luis Astiazarán and Javier Tebas Medrano.

They, managers of AVS (Margalef) and Televisió de Catalunya (Crush) and of the League of Professional Soccer (others two), reached an agreement to simulate an agreement to the detriment of the interests of the same AVS, according to the accusation qualified as 'moral misery' for Mediapro.


(27/11/07)