Who is Hamdou Elhouni, the Libyan indirectly involved in the investigations?



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Libyan international and top scorer in the last Club World Cup

Hamdou Elhouni is a 26-year-old Libyan winger in Libya who currently plays for Espérance Tunis in Tunisia.

With this club he reached the maximum exponent of his career last December (2019) when he became the best scorer in the Club World Cup that Jorge Jesús and Flamengo had in the final against Liverpool.

The Tunisians were eliminated in the second round, but Elhouni would shine after that, scoring a hat-trick in the fifth and sixth place match, won 6-2 by Esperance al Al Sadd of Qatar.

The footballer had arrived in Portugal in 2016, from the Libyans of Al Ahly de Tripolí to Santa Clara, where he arrived in the second half of the season.

He scored three goals in 16 games for the Azores in Liga II and, at the end of the season, he signed for four seasons with Benfica, who soon loaned him to Chaves. In the following season he did half in Chaves and the other half in Aves, which received it in 2018, a year before selling it to Espérance.

23 caps for Libya (three goals), Portugal’s Elhouni scored a total of five goals and had three assists in 67 games.

Now, according to Saturday magazine, his transfer to Benfica, in 2016, is one of the points of the joint investigation of the Public Ministry, the Judicial Police and the Tax Authority that, this Monday, led to the SAD raids in Benfica and Santa Clara . .

In June of this year, the newspaper Público, as part of a journalistic investigation into Desportivo das Aves, wrote that this club had sold the entire pass from Elhouni to Espérance for 500 thousand euros, on January 14, 2019, when, in At that time, he would have only 30 percent of the player’s economic rights. The remaining 70 percent would then belong to Benfica, according to Public.



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