An informed source confirmed to “JDD Tunisie”, that the Economic and Financial Research Team recently referred a group of financial corruption files related to the president of the Tunisian Football Federation, Wadii Jari, to the attention of the financial judicial pole in the capital, and one of the investigative judges, with the permission of the Public Prosecution, pledged to open a search for the purpose.
What are the suspicions and files related to Wadii Jari, the most controversial figure in the sports field in Tunisia?
Illicit enrichment?
Informed sources from the National Anti-Corruption Authority reported to “JDD Tunisie” that the authority reached in 2020, a report against the President of the Football federation, Wadii Jari, accompanied by a document represented in a personal guidance card issued by the Ministry of Health confirming that the bold has not returned directly to the medical profession since 1 Joan 2016, and he does not get paid for his work as president of the federation.
Jari was attached between 2011 and 2016, attached to the Sports Medicine Center in Nabeul, before he was terminated by the Minister of Youth and Sports, after a monitoring mission proved that he had completed only three clinics for a whole year, for which he received the same wage as his colleague, who completed nearly 900 clinics.
A case of harming the administration and unreasonably benefiting others
Among the issues that Wadii Jari faces, according to a judicial source, told “JDD Tunisie”, a complaint was submitted by the “I Watch” organization regarding suspected corruption in the national football team shirt deal, which the Spanish newspaper “Marca” classified as the worst shirt in the 2019 World Cup. The Tunisian Football Federation, in the person of its legal representative, applied for a visa for a tax exemption in order to release goods, valued at about 815,000 dinars, without paying the customs duties and due payments for the benefit of the “Uhlsport Company”, which supplies the national football teams with sports uniforms.
On the other hand, the committee of the Ministry of Youth and Sports refused to assign any tax concession to this company due to its awareness of tampering with the invoices submitted by the Football federation, whose president, Wadii Jari, insisted on obtaining the concession, submitting a second request without going through the supervision authority to obtain his goal without any legal support nor a visa from the Ministry of Finance.
Intercontinental suspicions
A spherical scandal in Tunisia, which was reported by the most famous French newspapers in 2019, prompted the French authorities to entrust the national financial magnate “Le Parquet National Financier” to investigate a betting case in which 7 Tunisians were involved, after the betting company owned by 72 percent of the French state, La Française des jeux, was discovered. , that the betting profits on three matches of interest to the Ben Guerdane Sports Federation went to the same people who reside in Nice, France.
According to French media, the value of the profits in these matches, in which Ben Guerdane faced the coastal sports star, the future of Gabes and the star of Metlaoui, exceeded 600,000 dinars, but it is noteworthy that one of the accused in this case is a member of the family of the president of the Tunisian Football Federation Wadii Al-Jari (his son). ), is from the Ben Guerdane region of the governorate of Medenine, which indicates that the first official in charge of the league knew in advance the results of the matches ahead of schedule.
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