Andrés Sanchez steps down from Corinthians boards after MP-SP allegation | OneFootball

Andrés Sanchez requested to step down from the Deliberative Council and the Guidance Council (CORI) of Corinthians this Wednesday following the complaint by the São Paulo Public Prosecutor's Office regarding the expenses with the club's corporate cards during his last presidential term.

The former president Andrés Sanchez and the financial superintendent Roberto Gavioli, who was removed from his position, were charged with three crimes: continued aggravated embezzlement, money laundering, and falsification of tax documents.

The information was confirmed by the president of the Corinthians Deliberative Council, Romeu Tuma Jr, through an official statement.

Terms and Investigation

Andrés Sanchez is a lifetime counselor of Corinthians and presided over the club in two periods: the first from 2007 to 2011, and the second from 2018 to 2020.

The irregular expenses with Corinthians' corporate cards investigated by the Public Prosecutor's Office refer to the second term. The prosecution analyzed invoices from August 2018 to December 2020, detecting a series of expenses that do not have an institutional character.

The São Paulo Public Prosecutor's Office demands from the former Corinthians president the reimbursement, with monetary correction, of the expenses with the club's corporate cards from August 2018 to December 2020. R$ 480,000 would have to be returned to the club, most of this amount paid by the former Corinthians president and a smaller portion paid by Roberto Gavioli, the financial manager.

Sanchez and Gavioli would also have to pay an additional 75% of the R$ 480,000, that is, R$ 360,000 each, for moral and material damages to Corinthians.

Personal Expenses with the Club's Card

In December 2020, according to the São Paulo Public Prosecutor's Office after analyzing credit card invoices, Andrés spent around R$ 9,000 in Tibau do Sul, a municipality in Rio Grande do Norte where the famous Pipa beach is located. There were also more than R$ 6,000 in expenses in the Fernando de Noronha archipelago in January of the same year.

However, according to Cássio Roberto Conserino, the expenses paid with Corinthians' corporate cards on these trips to the Northeast amounted to R$ 33,793.92.

There were also expenses of more than R$ 5,000 with the purchase of two watches at the luxury jewelry store HStern, but although the card used was Corinthians', the invoice for the products was issued in the name of the former president André Sanches. Expenses in clothing stores, such as Brooksfield, also caught the attention of the prosecution.

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