2023-12-06 17:39:22
The drug trafficker Edgar Valdez Villa, better known as ‘La Barbie’, in addition to his past in crime, is related to soccer because he bought a team that he bankrupted.
‘La Barbie’ became the owner of the Atlético Veraguense team that belonged to the first division of Panama, he paid 300 thousand dollars to take over the same club that was confiscated from him when he was captured in 2010.
“After falling into prison, he no longer had the money to maintain the salaries of the players or the technical director,” Anabel Hernández revealed in the book ‘Emma and the other women of the narco’.
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In the same text, Barbie’s poor financial education is detailed; after her arrest, an account of more than three million dollars that she had in Switzerland was only at 50 thousand dollars.
Because relatives claimed the money before the authorities froze the drug trafficker’s bank accounts.
Atlético Veraguense, in addition to the financial problems it experienced due to the arrest of La Barbie, disappeared in 2019 since the Panamanian Soccer Federation disaffiliated it.
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