Overview
- The TSJCV convicted president Carlos Parodi of asset concealment and imposed a two-and-a-half-year prison term, with Valentín Botella and José Francisco Javier León Barahona each receiving one year and seven months.
- Judges found the €2 million Barcelona paid in 2021 was deposited into an inactive Fundación Hércules account rather than the club’s embargoed account to block immediate tax seizure.
- The funds were later split into 34 nominal cheques used for salaries and suppliers, a sequence the court said consummated the crime on August 31, 2021.
- Hércules CF and its foundation were fined as legal entities and barred for three years from public subsidies, government contracts, and fiscal incentives, with reported fines of €42,000 for the club and €18,000 for the foundation.
- The court kept the lower court’s facts but rejected its acquittal, noting the club’s full 2022 tax repayment as a strong mitigant that does not erase criminal liability.