The Court of Instruction number 5 of Huesca has filed the so-called caso Oikos, which was born as one of the great operations against corruption in Spanish football, considering that match-fixing has not been proven. The judge made the decision after five years of investigations and after arresting players like Borja Fernndezwho was active at that time in the Real Valladolid or former footballers like Carlos Aranda o Ral Bravowhom the Police considered the ringleaders of a plot to fix matches and profit from illegal bets.
The magistrate Alicia Bustillo has agreed to the file after requesting it from the Prosecutor’s Office and the defense and destroys the investigations of the Judicial Police, which, as it recalls in its order, warned of the existence of “an alleged criminal organization dedicated to fixing football matches to obtain an illicit benefit through sports betting on those previously agreed upon results“In this way, the judge rules out that Aranda and Bravo were responsible for the plot and that other footballers such as Igo Lpez o Samuel Youto whom the researchers attribute the responsibility of “contacting the teams.”
Among the matches investigated, the most relevant was, without a doubt, the one played by the Real Valladolid against him Valencia on May 18, 2019 and the team ended up winning 0-2. The Police maintained that the plot tried to buy the match to make a combined bet. However, the judge considers that the evidence of the party’s purchase is “absolutely insufficient.”
In this meeting the Police focused on Borja Fernndez, “second captain of Valladolid and one of the corrupt objectives according to the reports.” The latter always denied that Ral Bravo had met him to fix the meeting but to “ask him about job options.” The evidence about Fernndez already declined in September 2020, when he was exonerated.