According to the reporter of Mehr, it was Sunday, December 26, that following the complaint of Hedayat Membini, the Secretary General of the Football Federation, from the Esteghlal Club that the signature was forged on the Federation letterhead, a violation in this regard was revealed, and it was the beginning of the trouble that is still facing Esteghlal. It has not taken and has found new angles.
FIFA’s answer to Esteghlal’s direct letter
Considering its financial problems, Esteghlal Club decided to pay the demands of its former Portuguese head coach Sapinto’s assistants from the club’s income in international football institutions so as not to face problems such as the closing of the transfer window. Based on this, Esteghlal Club sent a letter to the World Football Federation (FIFA) requesting the use of its financial income from that body. Because FIFA cannot implement the request of the Blues until it has the approval of the Iranian Football Federation.
However, in response to Esteghlal Club, FIFA has announced that it should take the necessary measures through the Iranian Football Federation, which is the FIFA embassy in Iran. After this FIFA response, Esteghlal Club requested the Football Federation to send a letter to FIFA regarding the use of the club’s income to FIFA to pay its debt to the former head coach’s assistants. According to the existing international football rules, FIFA and the confederations of each continent recognize the football federations of each country, and clubs must send their requests to the continental confederation or FIFA through their country’s football federations.
FIFA approval for players in the World Cup
According to the plan approved by FIFA, an amount of around 10,000 dollars will be paid to the club under his contract for each day of the player’s appearance in the World Cup. The teams that are in the group stage are involved in the World Cup for 13 days, and for each player, his club receives an amount of around 130,000 dollars. Considering that Esteghlal Club has had 3 national players in these competitions, it demands about 390,000 dollars from FIFA and based on this issue, it has requested to send a letter to FIFA.
Sending a letter of independence to FIFA by the Football Federation
The Blues of the capital, who had not taken the necessary measures in the appointed time, announced to the federation in the 90th minute that this letter should be sent to FIFA as soon as possible. In order to speed up this action, the federation asks Esteghlal Club to prepare the text of the letter and deliver it to the international relations department of the football federation. The international relations department of Esteghlal Club also prepares this letter and gives it to the Football Federation, but because this club had missed the necessary opportunity and saw the closing of the transfer window in front of its eyes, it implemented its correspondence with the coordination of the Federation officials.
An official of Esteghlal Club responded to this issue in an interview with Mehr reporter and said: Due to the time limit, we talked to the federation to sign and send the letter of Esteghlal Club. Esteghlal’s letter was sent to FIFA through the email of the Football Federation, because the club did not have the authority to send such a letter. The output of this letter is clear and suggesting that the letter was forged was baseless. Even after Membini sent the letter to the security of the federation, he talked to him and justified that it was not faked.
Serious action of the football federation with the wrongdoers
After the publication of this news in the media and cyberspace, the officials of the Football Federation promised to Esteghlal Club that they will deal seriously with the publisher of this letter, because the letter of Membini to the protection of the Football Federation (on 09/17/1402) is an internal matter and like other Correspondences are being followed up and investigated. Therefore, the media case of this letter, which questioned the officials of the federation, has been referred to the judicial organs of the football federation to deal seriously with the publishers.
Esteghlal CEO’s notice to the Secretary General of the Federation
But the end of this matter did not end there, and the CEO of Esteghlal Club of Tehran, after his team’s game on Tuesday, December 28, against Nasaji Mazandaran, said harshly against Membini: “May it be the last time you do such a thing!” These serious talks made the difference between Esteghlal Club and Membini public, although no reaction has been seen from the general secretary of the federation, but in the current situation, it seems that such an issue can only be resolved by the hands of the sportsmen and the federation.
Deprivation of the head of international relations of Esteghlal
After these statements, the CEO of Esteghlal Club of Tehran, the ethics committee of the football federation summoned him along with the vice president of international relations of this club to give their statements in this regard.
After holding the meeting of the Football Federation, he announced: Following the report of the Federation’s security regarding the forgery and use of a forged document, the subject of the clear violation of Article 9 of the Federation’s Code of Ethics in the Esteghlal Club, and according to the report of the International Department of the Federation and the investigation, Ali Khateer was summoned. , CEO of Esteghlal Club and the aforementioned explanations and following the confession of Soroush Mohajeri, the head of international relations of Esteghlal Club, on the principle of committing the material element of the violation and the importance of dealing with the violation quickly, therefore, according to the proposal dated 9/29/1402, the Honorable Chairman of the Court Investigations on the prevention of activities until the determination of the final task and the issuance of a definitive verdict, documented in Articles 2, 3, 3, 5, 9, and 65 of the Code of Ethics of the Football Federation, Soroush Mohajeri (Head of International Relations of Esteghlal) with a temporary order for 20 days from any activity related to football, futsal and football Sahihi will be suspended until the final assignment is determined.
A former member who accused the CEO of forging signatures
The seal of the decision of the Ethics Committee of the Football Federation against Esteghlal Club was not yet dry when Alireza Khani, a member of the Board of Directors of Esteghlal Club, filed a complaint in the judicial authorities, accusing Ali Khatir, CEO, and Farshid Samii, a member of the Board of Directors of this club, of forging signatures and signatures on Friday, December 1st. He accused his finger.
Khani has written in his complaint that Esteghlal Club, by concluding a contract as a tenant with a person as a lessor, registered Khani’s signature and fingerprints in this contract, while he was not aware of the conclusion of the contract and never signed that contract. He has not registered fingerprints. In this complaint, Khani openly accused Ali Khatir and Farshid Samii of forgery.
The contract that was signed with the amendment and has no legal problems
The issue in this regard is that Esteghlal Club should have provided a housing for this Argentinian player to live in. Accordingly, the Capital Blues have rented a unit for this player. When signing the Blanco housing contract, Samii registers his signature and fingerprints instead of Khani, because the real estate office had printed the contract sheet with a place for Khani’s signature, but since it was not possible to correct and reprint the contract sheet, this contract by presenting a The amendment to Esteghlal’s directors is signed, which states that Samii’s seal and signature are valid instead of Khani’s.
The Board of Directors of Esteghlal Club has delegated the authority to sign papers and documents to Farshid Samii, legal member and vice-chairman of the Club’s Board of Directors, through a resolution on July 27. According to this issue, no fake violations have been committed by Esteghlal Club.
The order of the Minister of Sports to follow up on fake signature news
After making such claims, the Ministry of Sports has entered into this issue and the Minister of Sports and Youth has assigned the Ministry’s security to follow up this issue seriously. The Ministry of Sports also announced: Based on this, if the claim of forging the signature of the Secretary General of the Football Federation and the signature of the member of the Esteghlal Club Management Board is true, with the cooperation of the relevant authorities, the culprits will be dealt with decisively, and if this claim is not true, the people who By issuing letters and providing this information to the media, they have targeted the peace of the country’s sports and will be dealt with decisively.
Esteghlal Club, which had the written and necessary documents in place, announced without delay that it is fully ready to work with the relevant factors, especially the honorable protection of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, in the direction of clarifying the allegations and clarifying the facts.
Sending documents to the Ministry of Sports by Esteghlal
According to Mehr’s follow-up, Esteghlal Club has provided all the necessary documents to the sports watchdog so that everything can be transparently checked and after checking the result, it will be made available to the people of the country through the country’s media.