Alianza Lima player accused of assault claims extortion by victim | OneFootball

The Peruvian defender Carlos Zambrano has filed an extortion complaint against the young Argentine woman who accused him and two other former Alianza Lima players of sexual abuse, his lawyer reported this Monday.

“The complaint was filed a week ago with the Callao prosecutor’s office due to the extortion messages my client received the previous day,” Gonzalo Hidalgo, the player’s lawyer, told AFP.

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In addition to the alleged victim, the case includes three other people whom Hidalgo did not identify. According to him, the messages were sent via social media.

In an interview with Peruvian radio station RPP, the lawyer stated that the blackmailers allegedly asked Zambrano to communicate “through this channel if you want to resolve the issue, otherwise, the case [with the complaint] will be handed over to the Public Prosecutor’s Office.”

In Buenos Aires, the young Argentine woman’s lawyer, Luis Deuteris, told the same radio station that “accusing a victim of abuse is despicable.”

Zambrano, left-back Miguel Trauco (formerly of Flamengo and Criciúma), and midfielder Sergio Peña were accused on January 18 by a 22-year-old Argentine woman, who claims to have been the victim of sexual abuse at a hotel in Montevideo, Uruguay, where Alianza Lima was holding its pre-season.

Although the players denied the accusation, Alianza removed them from the squad on January 23 and initiated disciplinary proceedings against the three.

Last Saturday, the club announced that Peña, 30, and Trauco, 33, also players for the Peruvian national team, “no longer officially belong” to Alianza Lima, without mentioning Zambrano’s sporting and legal situation.

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The scandal was not an obstacle for Peña to be signed last week by Sakaryaspor, from Turkey’s Second Division.

Amid the turmoil involving the three players, Alianza Lima will host 2 de Mayo from Paraguay this Wednesday in the return leg of the preliminary round of the Copa Libertadores knockout stage. In the first leg, the Peruvian team was defeated 1-0.

*With content from AFP

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