Abelardo paid 30,000 euros to a plot of extortion - La Provincia

Abelardo Fernández, coach of the Real Club Deportivo Espanyol and former player of Barça, paid the amount of 30,000 euros to an extortion network to users who called a contact website, after receiving telephone threats from a man.

The former player and former coach of the Alaves and of Sporting of Gijón, he paid that amount in four transfers, the same number of calls made by the extortionist, who threatened to harm his family, as can be seen from the case summary, known as 'sextorsion', which instructs the Court of Instruction number 3 of Teruel, whose owner has already raised the secret that weighed on it.

The plot, which has left victims throughout Spain, was organized into six different groups, although connected to each other, and with a main nucleus located in the Valencian Community. The first complaints arose in the province of Turolense.

Two people, Massinissa F., aka Erike Ismael B., aka Salva, who are now in prison, exercised as ringleaders. The extortions had been carried out since at least 2016. Erik's group threatened and extorted the victims who deposited the money in accounts provided by other people in exchange for remuneration.

Salva's group extorted with another team organized with their own "mules" to get the money and three other people bleached these amounts, including the Levante player in the summary Toño García, detained in February 2019, who was in provisional detention for a month and was released, once the Provincial Court of Teruel considered his appeal.

Among the different groups, there would also be another dedicated to the fraud Y documentary falsehood of bank checks.

Given the high number of affected throughout the country, which can reach 4,000, the holder of the Court of Instruction number 3 of Teruel has raised a question of jurisdictional jurisdiction for the case to be taken by the National Court.