The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office has exonerated Andrés Iniesta of an alleged crime of fraud in the South American country, according to the newspaper. The World. The Peruvian justice system, which opened a file against the former soccer player after a complaint from a group of Peruvian businessmen who had worked with the subsidiary of NSN (the company of the former Barça player), which had raised investments of up to $600,000 for events that later never materialized.
of his multinational company Never Say Never (NSN) Barcelona. The company NSN Sudamérica SAC would have several lines of business and presence in countries such as Spain, Japan, Mexico and the United States. “We are very excited to be present in a country like Peru and a continent like South America to continue growing and promoting our values around the world. We love the passion with which Peruvians live sport,” he explained.
Thus, in January of that year, a group of Peruvian and Spanish businessmen dedicated to the organization of musical and sporting events formed the company NSN Sudamérica SAC as a subsidiary of Andrés Iniesta’s company. According to the tax file, initially the commercial objective was to create football schools in alliance with clubs and regional governments and, in addition, to carry out entertainment events related to the sport. Iniesta’s endorsement was the best guarantee.
The Peruvian Ricardo Paul Valderrama Rubio and the Spanish Carlos Gómez Pintor, heads of NSN Sudamérica SAC, sought investors to organize a series of high-impact events. They partnered with a company called Gucho Entertainment SAC to hold a legends match, a friendly between the Cienciano club of Cusco and the Nacional club of Ecuador, as well as a K-pop festival and another also related to sports. But according to the complainants, only the Upa Upa Festand with considerable economic losses. There was no trace of the others.
“After having appropriated the sums of money that we injected into NSN, they declared their company bankrupt, subjecting it to a liquidation process in June 2024, revealing their true intentions,” reads the file that the Peruvian justice now rejects. The Gucho Entertainment businessmen maintained that both Valderrama Rubio and Gómez Pintor acted under the prestige of an international company to obtain investments and seize other people’s money with total impunity. With the advantage, also, of not residing in Peru.
The tax document noted that “using his prestige,” Andrés Iniesta “authorized and supported the founding of NSN Sudamérica SAC.” The investigators were studying whether the money raised in Peru was transferred to the parent company and inserted into new markets, with an economic loss of $602,500. For this reason, the Public Ministry began investigations into the alleged crime against property in the form of aggravated fraud.
Andrés Iniesta’s work team responded to the accusations with a statement in which they flatly denied the accusations from the beginning. “We trust that the Peruvian justice system will clarify this situation very soon. We reserve the right to file pertinent actions in the defense of our work and our honor, also requesting maximum rigor in all information published regarding this case,” they noted. The Peruvian justice system now agrees with the former culé player.
