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Milad defends complaint against San Marcos: ‘We have an obligation as a board’
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- ANFP president Pablo Milad said the federation reported San Marcos de Arica after its Financial Control Unit identified alleged inconsistencies in the club’s financial statements.
- He said the club had not provided documents requested over several months and that its filings did not match an audit’s findings.
- Any disaffiliation would require approval by the ANFP Presidents’ Council, with four-fifths of members voting in favor, and San Marcos still has the right to defend itself.
Pablo Milad is defending the Chilean football federation’s decision to report San Marcos de Arica over alleged inconsistencies in its financial statements. The complaint has prompted questions about whether clubs fighting to avoid relegation could benefit if the northern club were disaffiliated.
Milad rejected the suggestion that those clubs pressured the ANFP. Speaking to VLN Radio, he said, "We have an obligation as a board: To report what was determined by the Financial Control Unit."
We have an obligation as a board: To report what was determined by the Financial Control Unit.
He said the concerns involved San Marcos’s failure to record operating capital in recent years and differences between information submitted to the ANFP and the results of an audit. The federation, he added, had requested supporting documents for months, but they never arrived.
The last few years they have not had operating capital, and the report given to the ANFP did not match the results of the audit.
Milad said the case could involve a document that did not reflect reality, which would need to be proven. The matter must be decided through the ANFP’s tribunals, and any disaffiliation would also require a vote by the Presidents’ Council. Even if both tribunal chambers supported disaffiliation, four-fifths of the council would have to approve it.
The ANFP president stressed that the process has several stages left. San Marcos de Arica has the right to present its defense before a final decision is made.
There is still a long process ahead. San Marcos also has the right to defend itself.
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Originally published by Cooperativa in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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