José Luis Noriega on Agustín Lozano: "He is a risky subject, he could flee the country"

Augustine Lozanopresident of the Peruvian Football Federation is accused by the prosecution to lead a criminal organization. Yesterday, the FPF premises were raided. Jose Luis Noriegaformer sports manager, analyzes the case.

Why did the Prosecutor’s Office carry out the raid on the Federation?

The crime began in 2018, with preparatory acts, what happened? President Oviedo of the FPF was put in prison and the vice president, Mr. Lozano, took advantage of this situation to, without a choice, climb through the window and remain illegally to this day. Lozano has forcibly registered his name as president of the FPF in public records. Having inscribed his name as the president of the Federation, he has committed a series of criminal acts. He has provoked television stations, he has subsidized referred clubs, he has moved black money. You must not stop seeing the horizon. Today the FPF is nothing, finally the Prosecutor’s Office will end up sanctioning Lozano. But the biggest problem, which has exposed him, was when the Prosecutor’s Office asked him for the accounting information and he did not provide that information. Lozano has exposed Peruvian soccer to a raid.

But this didn’t do it alone, did it?

He has accomplices by omission within the Peruvian Football Federation, because no one can say that they do not know what was happening. Sunarp public officials will be investigated for this process. Lozano managed a tournament with tyranny, but if he is not allowed to act as he pleases, he attacks like a dictator because he has the consent of public record officials.

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How was the distribution of money in the clubs?

I understand that the ten presidents of the departmental clubs who are on your side have benefited. While he told 15 to get your money and another three who had just gone up to first class Carlos Stein, Auyama and one more, he subsidized them.

Any estimate of what he spent?

An estimate would be more than 5 million dollars, throughout all this time, for this reason, the prosecutor wonders: hey, where did you get all this money? Because logic tells you that you cannot give money to your promoters, from where? So, there is an issue of irregular money management, money laundering whose crime can carry 20 to 25 years in prison. It is important to know that all this prepared him.

Should the FPF remove Lozano?

Of course yes, if the Assembly is honest and the owners of the clubs too, Lozano could be removed. I find Lozano a flight risk, because he is an international leader, so he is a risk subject, that he might not return. Let it not come to our attention that the Prosecutor’s Office orders a preventive detention for him or an order to prevent him from leaving, to prevent his escape.