Given the recent court ruling in favor of Gonzalo Verón, which obliges Independent to pay the exorbitant sum of 2,332,081,796 pesos as compensation, Nestor Grindettivice president of the institution, stated that the club is “in a difficult situation“.
While the squad is preparing to welcome Estudiantes de La Plata next Sunday at the Libertadores de América with Pedro Monzón as interim technical director, the leadership is carrying out a trial against the previous management for fraud. In this regard, Grindetti expressed his concern in a recent interview.
“Independiente is in a difficult economic situation, we drag a hellish debt that the previous administration left us. This has serious complications that we are going to solve,” he explained in dialogue with A24.
However, the vice president tried to convey calm by pointing out the current economic situation of the club. “Luckily we were able to resolve the issue of the monthly deficit and today the club is balanced“, substitute Grindetti.
In addition to the vice president, it was the club’s lawyer, Christian Polletti, who left a forceful sentence about the present that the “Red” is going through and detailed the complaint they made against the leadership of Hugo Moyano and his son Pablo. “Spurious administration, that is the hypothesis that we took to the Courts, the most expensive goal in world history, and the absurd sentence that was announced a few days ago, that It’s a death certificate not only for Independiente but for any institution that receives in its coffers,” he said.
The situation exploded with the court ruling that requires Independiente to pay 2,332,081,796 pesos to Verón due to double compensation for dismissal in a pandemic. “This is really the bankruptcy of Independiente. You cannot pay such money in a labor lawsuit,” Polletti said.
In addition to the debt it has with Verón, the current leadership declared when it assumed that the institution has 27 debts with clubs, players and representatives for a sum of 22,871,087 dollars.
