River filed a criminal complaint against Foster Gillett for 'fraud and deceit.'

Yesterday afternoon, River filed a criminal complaint against Foster Gillett and Guillermo Tofoni, their representative in Argentina, for defrauding the club's interests in the failed transfer of Rodrigo Villagra.

According to details provided by journalist Grabiela Pepe, the Núñez club filed a lawsuit for the crimes of fraud and disruption of agreed rights, relying on articles 172 and 173, section 11 of the National Penal Code. The complaint is mainly based on the fact that the Foster Group committed to paying for the player's transfer and River did not receive any money.

"The maneuver carried out by the businessmen caused serious damage to the club's assets. It is considered a disruption of agreed rights," revealed the club's legal team. In that sense, River argues that, as Foster had committed to buying the transfer, they couldn't use the midfielder at the start of the season and lost a lot of time until the transfer window closed, obtaining less money than expected.

Meanwhile, within the file, the Millionaire demanded a search of Tofoni's offices, located in the San Martín district, "in order to obtain the address of Foster Gillett and Juan Manuel Cobian which are unknown to date". To achieve this, the club requested "the seizure of written documentation, minutes, files, computers, notebooks, tablets, iPads, and any other technological element that allows preserving the documentation that is computerized of the persons mentioned in this file".

A week ago, Stefano Di Carlo, the club's General Secretary, referred to Foster: "Regarding the Foster Group, what they have done is hardly presentable. The issues are evident and go beyond River. It seems to me that reality is stronger than anything I can say". In addition, he said they are seeing how the club will proceed: "We are in an atypical, unfair, strange, and exceptional situation. The handling was hardly presentable. We find ourselves in this situation and will evaluate the steps to follow with the Foster group".

It should be remembered that Rodrigo Villagra ended up going to CSKA Moscow in Russia for 4 million dollars, plus an extra 1 million in bonuses, for half of his transfer. This figure was far from the 10 million River paid to Talleres and the 11.5 million promised by Foster.

Tofoni's response:

"It is a senseless and baseless complaint because there was no signed contract. If there was no signed contract, there was no damage. It's like you want to sue me because I didn't sell you the house. He kept the asset, which in this case is the player, and there was no signed contract," he replied emphatically.

Meanwhile, Tofoni clarified that there was no signed contract for Villagra and that the only thing that existed was a verbal agreement that did not materialize: "Neither draft nor contract. Neither before notaries, nothing. Personally, I was not in any negotiation, but regardless of this, if the lawyers exchanged contract drafts, they never informed me that they signed a contract, nor did I sign any contract".

Finally, he clarified the actions from Foster Gillett's side: "The lawyers will analyze this presentation made by River's representative to evaluate future damages and losses, for a lawsuit that makes no sense".