Together with Lovren, he testified in 2018 in the trial against the former president of Dinamo Zagreb, Zdravko Mamic, and three other people
They are accused of alleged irregularities in the transfer of Modric to Tottenham in 2008 and that of Lovren to Lyon two years later
Luka Modric, a Real Madrid player, and Dejan Lovren, from Olympique de Lyon, have been accused of false testimony in the trial against leaders of his former club, Dinamo Zagreb, according to the ‘Hina’ news agency. The Croatian public prosecutor believes that offered false testimony in 2017according to a judicial source that is handling the case that shook soccer in that country after the facts were known.
the two players They were already in the crosshairs of the prosecution in 2017, but the case came to nothing after the 2018 World Cup in Russia in which the two footballers participated. The prosecution has returned to the charge unearthing the case against the former president of Dinamo Zagreb, Zdravko Mamic, and three other people, for alleged irregularities in the transfers of Modric to Tottenham in 2008 and the one of Lovren to Lyon two years later.
MAMIC FLED TO BOSNIA
The former president of the Zagreb club, one of the strong men of Croatian football, is in the crosshairs of that country’s justice for several cases of embezzlement. Mamic fled to Bosnia after coming out the affair in which there could be hidden from the public treasury 1.6 million euros obtained together with his alleged accomplices, product of the 15.6 million euros obtained mainly in fraudulent transfers.
The accusations against the two footballers are the same that were known in 2017 and 2018 according to the local media ‘Sportske novosti’, of a process not completed and partially closed in 2021. The criminal offense of false testimony is punishable by between six months and five years in prisonaccording to the Croatian penal code and to which the information provided by the information of ‘Hina’ refers.