{"id":121,"date":"2025-08-10T08:25:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biplays.com\/corinthians-kick-the-president-for-corruption-to-be-declaration\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T08:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:25:23","slug":"corinthians-kick-the-president-for-corruption-to-be-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tealde.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/corinthians-kick-the-president-for-corruption-to-be-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"Corinthians kick the president for corruption -to -be -declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Corinthians, one of the most successful football clubs in Brazil, has forced his president Anthony Melo who is confronted with criminal persecution and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>The Sao Paulo club voted on Saturday during his annual general meeting to expel Melo, who had already been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Melo, 61, is accused of criminal conspiracy, money laundering and theft, according to legal sources. The relocation followed an investigation into a sponsorship agreement with the VAI de Bet Gambling platform.<\/p>\n<p>According to Brazilian media, documents have shown that Melo has set up a network of fake companies to deduce money from Corinthians, which is in financial difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>Public Prosecutors have demanded Melo and other suspects in the case who will repay around $ 7.2 million to the club.<\/p>\n<p>The general meeting voted 1,413 to 620 to remove Melo, according to official results released by Corinthians, whose high -profile supporters are President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The sevenfold Brazilian champions are currently 12th in the table. Their star players were Garrincha, Rivelino, Socrates, Roberto Carlos and more recently Javier Mascherano.<\/p>\n<p>Melo brought in the Dutch Internatonal Memphis Depay last year.<\/p>\n<p>RSR\/CL\/Tw\/PI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corinthians, one of the most successful football clubs in Brazil, has forced his president Anthony Melo who is confronted with criminal persecution and money laundering. The Sao Paulo club voted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tealde.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tealde.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tealde.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tealde.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tealde.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tealde.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tealde.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tealde.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tealde.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tealde.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}