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When AIK sold Nabil Bahoui to Al Ahli in the summer of 2015, the club told the Swedish Football Association that, in connection with the deal, they were represented by SPM Sport Agency (a Scottish mailbox company, according to Dagens Nyheter ) and a woman based in Malta. But on Tuesday, the club announced on its website that it was agent Hasan Cetinkaya who represented the AIK in the negotiations that led to Bahoui moving.
“SPM Sport Agency represented AIK Football in the negotiations with Al-Ahli SC. SPM Sport Agency is a partner of the soccer agent Hasan Cetinkaya. The person who represented SPM Sport Agency, and therefore AIK Football, in the negotiations was Hasan Cetinkaya, “AIK wrote in a text on their website.
The woman that the AIK reported to the association as mediator of the club in the transition, the club did not mention anything. She is, according to DN, not an agent but a “company founder”. The company he represents offers, among other things, bank accounts in tax havens, tax planning and the opportunity to buy EU citizenship, according to the newspaper.
Today, agents who want to be active in Sweden must register and be approved by the Swedish Football Association. When Bahoui moved to Saudi Arabia, however, a different set of rules applied. He made fewer demands on players and clubs, but those who allowed themselves to be represented by an agent would at least report to the association who or what was represented on individual matters.
The Swedish Football Association is currently investigating the deal that brought Nabil Bahoui to Al Ahli and that the AIK has now announced that it was represented by Hasan Cetinkaya may have consequences.
“Both in accordance with the then applicable intermediation regulations and in accordance with the current ones, the person who de facto performed the intermediation service must also be the one who is registered as an intermediary.
She continues:
“The SvFF is currently investigating information that has emerged regarding the 2015 sale of Bahoui by AIK. Based on what emerges from this investigation and with respect to, among other things, prescription issues, we will decide whether to report to the Disciplinary Board “.
Hasan Cetinkaya also, in an interview with Aftonbladet, confirmed that he was involved in the deal.
– I carried out the Nabil Bahoui deal with Al-Ahli together with a partner, SPM Sport Agency. The company represented the AIK and was registered with the Swedish Football Association according to the rules at the time. AIK has fully responded to that as well. So it was a completely different agent rule, says the agent.
If SvFF now concludes that the new information provided by AIK and Cetinkaya is correct, and the association assesses that the statute of limitations has not expired, the club’s actions may be considered a violation of the intermediate regulations at that time.
“Yes, if you provide incorrect information on who the mediator was, it could be a violation of mediator regulations. If there has been a violation in this individual case, we will return when the investigation is complete,” writes SvFF attorney Christine Stridsberg.
So far, the SvFF has not decided whether to report the AIK to the disciplinary committee, which could sanction the club with, for example, fines if violations of the aforementioned regulations are proven.
SvFF General Counsel Anders Hübinette confirms for Fotbollskanalen that the AIK did not inform Hasan Cetinkaya as the club’s representative in relation to the agreement. On the new information that AIK and Cetinkaya have now provided, Hübinette says:
– This is exactly one of the problems that we are analyzing at the moment.
On its website, AIK has stated that SvFF has sent a request to the club for them to also clarify the Palm Eleven company’s assignment in relation to the deal.
“We can confirm that we have instructed AIK to submit certain information to the SvFF. What we request in more detail, we will not comment further during the ongoing investigation,” writes federal attorney Christine Stridsberg in this regard.
It was on Sunday that Dagens Nyheter reported that AIK hired a mailbox company when they sold Nabil Bahoui to Al Ahli in the summer of 2015, and that an invoice linked to the transfer was now found in a police raid on a factory of drugs south of Stockholm.
The invoice is dated April 2018, even though the transition was completed almost three years earlier, and it was sent from a company in the Estonian capital Tallinn, BlueBlueSky OÜ, which is run by two Swedes with a “long past criminal “, according to DN. The company that received the invoice is the company of the Swiss agent Marco Lichtsteiner, Palm Eleven AG. And it referred to the “development of a negotiating strategy and conditions” for the transfer of Bahoui from AIK to Al Ahli. The sum of the invoice? 80,000 euros, about 800,000 crowns.
However, to the Swedish Football Association, AIK stated, in connection with the agreement, that it was represented by the Scottish company SPM Sport Agency and an appointed woman based in Malta when selling Bahoui. For DN, club director Björn Wesström, who was sports director at the time of the transfer, confirmed, however, that Palm Eleven received payment for the sale because the company “had an ownership agreement of the economic rights of the players. “.
According to DN, SPM Sport Agency is a now defunct mailbox company in Scotland. It is a limited partnership, which makes it possible to hide who the true representatives of the company are, since it is not necessary to have a directory with individuals because other companies are approved as representatives of the company. This particular company, SPM Sport Agency LLP, was founded by two anonymous companies in Belize in Central America, so it is impossible to know who owns the company.
AIK has announced on its website that it has no connection with BlueBlueSky OÜ nor is it aware of the company. Furthermore, the club has said that they have launched an investigation into the Bahoui affair and will not comment further on it until it is completed.
The soccer channel has contacted AIK to comment on why the association was not informed that Hasan Cetinkaya was involved in the transfer of Bahoui, so far without success.
