A court in Croatia has sentenced former Dinamo Zagreb chief executive Zdravko Mamic to six-and-a-half years in prison for tax evasion and siphoning off profits from player transfers.
Two other former senior Dinamo officials and a tax official were also jailed for the same offences.
Mamic’s brother Zoran, a former Dinamo coach, was given a sentence of four years and 11 months, while Damir Vrbanovic, a senior official in the Croatian Soccer Federation (HNS), was sentenced to three years.
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Roma have completed the signing of Dinamo Zagreb midfielder Ante Coric on a five-year deal.
The Croatia international joins the Giallorossi until June 2023 for an initial €6 million (£5.2m) fee with a 10 percent selling on fee due — or €2m (£1.7m), whichever is greater — to the Croatian champions if he leaves before the end of June 2020.
He told asroma.com: “I am very pleased to be at Roma, one of the biggest European clubs.
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Luka Modric faces charges in his native Croatia.
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Zdravko Mamic is a controversial figure after allegations of embezzlement.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Controversial former Dinamo Zagreb director Zdravko Mamic was shot and injured in Bosnia on Monday, police and media reported.
Croatia’s state TV said Mamic was shot in his leg and taken to a local hospital on Monday. It said the injury was not life-threatening. Police were searching for two possible assailants.
Bosnian media said Mamic was attending a memorial for his father at a graveyard near the town of Tomislavgrad when two people fired at him from a nearby forest….
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OSIJEK, Croatia — Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren’s testimony at a Croatian football corruption trial was postponed Wednesday after the main suspect fired his lawyers during a hearing.
Lovren, who is not a suspect, was to testify about his financial deals with former Dinamo Zagreb director Zdravko Mamic, who has been charged with embezzlement and tax evasion.
Shortly after the hearing begun, Mamic got into an argument with a judge and his two lawyers, whom he immediately fired. The judge ordered…
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Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric appeared as a key witness at a corruption trial on Tuesday, testifying about his financial deals with a former Dinamo…
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NYON, Switzerland — Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain no longer risk UEFA fines and penalties for breaking “Financial Fair Play” rules in 2014.
UEFA says both clubs complied with ongoing clauses such as limiting their spending on wages and transfers through 2016.
It means Man City and PSG each forfeited only €20 million ($21.4m) in Champions League prize money instead of the maximum €60m ($64.2m) that UEFA threatened to withhold.
UEFA says its club finance panel also cleared Dinamo…
Arijan Ademi will now only be banned until October.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has cut Arijan Ademi’s doping ban from four years to two after the Dinamo Zagreb and Macedonia midfielder persuaded an appeal panel he had not intentionally cheated.
Ademi, 26, tested positive for the steroid stanozolol after Dinamo’s 2-1 Champions League win over Arsenal in September 2015.
Two months later, European football’s governing body UEFA gave him a four-year ban.
A UEFA appeals panel upheld that decision last May.
Ademi then took his fight to sport’s…
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Liverpool midfielder Marko Grujic will not be joining Dinamo Zagreb on loan, the player’s agent has said.
Zdravko Mamic, an advisor for the Croatian outfit, said earlier this week that he was keen to sign the 20-year-old on a temporary deal.
Grujic moved to Liverpool from Red Star Belgrade in the summer, but has been limited to just five appearances for Jurgen Klopp’s side this season.
However, Grujic’s representative, Zoran Stojadinovic, has dismissed the idea of moving Grujic moving to Zagreb,…