Barcelona president Joan Laporta has been charged with alleged fraud for the second time in a month.
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Laporta has case to answerAllegedly failed to return €50,000Second charge within 30 daysFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?
Per , Laporta is being investigated for alleged fraud for the second time in a month. He and his former partner, Joan Olive, are accused of failing to return €50,000 to a private investor.
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Between 2016 and 2018, Laporta and Olive are alleged to have raised money from several investors into a company they run. Now, they are being accused of failing to return the money that has been invested. They are already under investigation for failing to return €4.7m (£4m/$5m) to another complainant.
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Laporta is alleged to have invested the money in a company called Reus, which ended up insolvent, and into a Hong Kong company with the intention of constructing a house in Asia. Now, the lawyer fronting the suit claims that he has never been told what happened to the money.
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Per the report, Laporta could soon be on the end of another lawsuit, with another victim allegedly considering coming forward.






