The former Croatian international footballer with a past in teams such as Aston Villa, Bruges and Dinamo Zagreb, Bosko Balaban, has been sentenced by a Zagreb court to one year in prison for not having paid his ex-wife the pension to support their children for six years.
The sentence, as explained HLN, came out in 2021. Balaban was sentenced to one year in prison and four years of probation, although they ended up being commuted in exchange for paying the pension in the following two years. However, Having not completed his part, the same court has decided that he will enter prison in January 2024.
The amount owed to his ex-wife, the model who was Miss Croatia in 1995, Iva Radic, amounted to approximately 80,000 euros. The ex-footballer’s argument was that he was not making much income, although during this time he has continued to complete transfers as an agent for footballers.
Judicial sources cited by the newspaper warn that there is no turning back to revoke the sentence. Balaban will go to jail, even if he addresses the payment he has not made in recent years. In addition, the amount of time spent behind bars could even be increased to four years.
This was Balaban’s career
During his career as a footballer, Bosko Balaban played in domestic competitions in Croatia, England, Belgium, Greece and Malaysia. His best performance came in the ranks of Bruges, with whom he managed to score fifty goals between 2003 and 2007. He had previously tried his luck in the Premier League in the ranks of Aston Villa, but he was only able to play eight games.
