The agency is investigating José Carlos Vives Gomez, owner of the Piratas football club, for allegedly dealing in resources of illicit origin linked to various companies between 2022 and 2024.
After allegations of mismanagement and irregularities within the team emerged in recent days Pirates FCit was announced that The Office of the Attorney General (FGR) filed a case against José Carlos Vives Gómez.club owner Expansion Leaguedue to their likely involvement in transactions involving resources of illicit origin.
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According to a document in the possession of the authorities, the events under investigation could have occurred between 2022 2024 and will include various individuals and legal entities connected through a corporate and financial structure.
Those named include Vives Gomez as partner and representative CF Veracruzano, SA de CV The investigation is aimed at determining the origin, destination and ultimate beneficiary of resources managed and channeled through companies believed to be related to each other.
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The complaint alleges that this arrangement would separate the companies’ operational and property functions, as well as separate the ownership of assets and rights from the economic activities carried out by other legal entities.
The above-mentioned assets include rights associated with the exploitation Luis “Pirate” Fuente Stadium. Such a distribution would raise doubts about the route of the money, the income generated and the people who benefited from it.
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FGR believed that these conditions should be considered “Probable update of operations with resources of illegal origin”. It also revealed corporate ties, overlaps between partners and legal representatives, and apparent limited economic potential relative to the value of public benefit transactions.
INCONFORMITY MUST BE ELIMINATED
The prosecutor’s office noted that Possible inconsistencies must be checked. through analysis of tax, financial, property and corporate information of the people and companies involved. Opening a folder does not mean there is proven criminal liability.
Added to this investigation is a procedure recently requested by an agent of the Mexico City State Ministry of the Mexican Football Federation to determine whether the Piratas FC logo is being used in a “fraudulent” manner or whether a “crime of plagiarism” has occurred. The team will also not have its image registered with the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), which is a necessary requirement to receive FMF approval.
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