Lopera owns 51.3% of the property titles of the Sevillian club
The case is similar to that of the Gil family at Atlético de Madrid, and in that case the courts agreed with them
Javier Paezformer director of Real Betis and nephew of the former president Manuel Ruiz by Loperahas assured that his “family will go to the end” to recover in the supreme court “the shareholding majority of 51.3%” of the property titles of the Sevillian club.
Paez has stated that “the Court Supreme has already taken the first step to corroborate” that farusacompany owned by Manuel Ruiz de Lopera“bought all his shares of the Betis“despite the fact that a court of Mercantile of Seville sentenced in his day that he had not disbursed the money to acquire a part of them.
In a car dictated last Thursday, according to what has been advanced Seville Journalthe Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court has admitted the appeal of farusawhich maintains that it corrected the irregularities committed to subscribe the share capital of Betis within the legal deadlines.
If he supreme court rule in favor of Ruiz de Loperathe pact signed in 2017 for his separation from the Betisan agreement that farusa has “denounced in an additional writing in the same supreme court“, as pointed out to Eph Javier Paez.
“We are owed four million euros and, above all, another 2.7 million for the guarantees of the ‘Case Nelson‘-the signing of the Portuguese side Nelson Augusto Tomar in 2008- before the benfica. These guarantees were included in the 2017 pact, the Audience ruled in our favor in May, the Betis does not want to liquidate them and the result is that Manuel Ruiz de Lopera runs the risk of action being taken against his assets,” he added. Paez.
The Sevillian businessman considers that his “case is similar” to that of the family “Gil in the Atletico Madridand they, at last, have been assisted by judicial reason” and recovered shareholder control of the Madrid club.
Javier Paez insisted on his idea of ”going to the end” because “this family has suffered a lot, it has gone against its heritage” but now “the correct path has been traced so that it is granted reason. If in the Supreme returns these 36,869 shares, it would recover the majority shareholding with a total of 51.3%”.
“We are practically sure that this must be the end of everything,” he stressed. Javier Paez.