The Civil Guard investigate the Theft and subsequent sale of official t -shirts of the Tenerife Sports Club by employees of the island entity.
Agents of the crime team against Heritage of the Organic Judicial Police Unit (UOPJ) try to determine if some workers of the institution, in collusion with people external to the club, have taken advantage of their position and charge in the representative for DESTING FROM THE OFFICE LA VENTA T -shirts and other equipment supplements.
The agents investigate if there have been commissions between employees and intermediaries and sellers of this material.
Keep in progress
The operation has been active for more than two months and is still underway, with the aim of specifying the scope of the supposed irregularities, as well as the people who could allegedly be involved.
This investigation, in charge of one of the Instruction Courts of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, begins from a complaint made a few months ago by the director and second shareholder of the club, Rayco Garcíaand the sports counselor AYOZE GARCÍA, who appeared at the Civil Guard offices of the capital of Tenerife. At that time, he was still president Paulino Rivero.
Most of the effects marketed outside the official channel is made up of shirts, the garment that has the greatest acceptance among fans of all clubs. Not surprisingly, the design of this clothing is kept with absolute suspicion of one season to the next with the intention that its composition will be a surprise for the followers and subscribers of the representative, which usually exhaust extenders quickly since the first remittances are put into circulation.
However, research has also detected the Subtraction of other pieces of clothing and other complement to the official shield of the sports corporation.
The figure is unknown
The specific figure of units that have been diverted from the official distribution channel. All these pieces were manufactured or sent to CD Tenerife by Hummel, the Danish firm of sporting articles that sponsors the entity from the 2013/14 campaign and that has been adding to its catalog to a large number of LaLiga clubs. The intention of the rulers of the island team is to remain linked to this brand for several more seasons.
Two counselors of the blue and white entity made the complaint after making their own inquiries
An essential section of the work of researchers over recent weeks has been related to the study of the Intervened documentation and records made so far. Various videographic tests have also been analyzed.
At the moment, the agents of the Equipment of Crimes against Heritage Some expert reports made by people external to the Civil Guard are given to them. In any case, the Santacrucero Court that directs the investigation has decreed the summary secret so that the actions will reach.
Among them would be the registration carried out by civil guards in a dedicated company of screen printing in textile garments.
First indications
For several years the elucubrations between employees and collaborators of the CD Tenerife had multiplied over possible irregularities in the sale of the official material of the representative, whose commercialization implies a very relevant epigraph in the income item corresponding to each sports season. In the 2022/23 season, store sales were around one million euros (920,000), multiplying for more than six figures of the previous year, when only 174,000 euros were obtained for the sale of material in the official channels.
In recent years, even some soccer players linked to the first team of the institution throughout the last five -year period had let employees from the corporation who did not receive as many shirts as it is use and custom in other clubs of the same or higher category, putting as reference their experience in other teams to which you also saw the same sports equipment firm. However, what caught the most attention within the blue and white club was that there were establishments where it was presumed to sell the clothes with the Official distinctive at reduced prices.
In this direction, it should be noted that the investigation analyzes videographic tests in which it can be verified that this alternative sales channel exists. In addition, it is easily verifiable that Tenerife clothing can be acquired in certain internet pages to extraordinarily low rates. Users who have bought them at prices significantly inferior to those listed in official stores have been able to verify that They are not falsificationsbut garments that leave the factory. This circumstance was notorious in the blue and white club with a sales volume on these website much higher than that can be obtained from other first and second division equipment.
In a more recent period a very eloquent episode had occurred within the club. One of the people already farewell from the club that had expressed their doubts regarding the sale of the official material of the first team and its commercialization, attached to the marketing area, found the unpleasant surprise to see their scratched vehicle.
Once he put this situation to the knowledge of his superiors and had access to the recording of the camera circuit of the parking lot where he had parked, he was able to verify that who had performed this fault was one of the employees to those who had transferred his questions and concerns about it. That chapter raised great stir and internal controversy at Heliodoro Rodríguez López. Subsequently, the exalted position of the club formulated the corresponding Complaint in police units.
The then general director of the institution, which is no longer part of the organic structure of Tenerife, took care of setting up the matter internally and getting the situation not to reach adults. Since then, that incident was interpreted internally as a clear indication that Something murky happened in relation to official t -shirts of the representative and its subsequent marketing. The investigation will determine if there are crimes.
