No Bones with Jones has been informed about the latest development regarding Safa Cape Town’s investigation into the BT Academy Tour scandal which are as follows…
The region’s legal team received a report from the investigating committee, which will be tabled at their next executive meeting in October.
This little breakthrough will be welcoming news to the parents of the 36 players, who collectively paid R1.7 million and are still feeling the effects of their financial losses they incurred by offering their kids an opportunity of a lifetime, which in fact, ended in great disappointment.
Safa CT has already engaged with some of the parents, as well as the coaches, on two separate occasions which suggests that they deem this matter as serious and urgent.
The Mother Body has, during this time, also extended an invitation to BT Academy’s boss Brandon Timmy (pictured), who has since not confirmed his availability.
Our website can also confirm that the Director of the Donosti Eventos organization, Inigo Olaizola, confirmed in an email that they never had this problem in their 33 years of running the event.
“For our part, we are very clear that this person, or any other academy or club that he runs, will never be able to participate in our tournament again,” Olaizola confirmed. He also stated his version of events. “Brandon, whom we do not know personally, contacted us a long time ago and we thought it would be interesting to have several teams from South Africa participating.
He made the first deposit within the established deadline, but then he asked us to delay the final payment until he had confirmation from the Embassy that he would have visas for everyone.
This was logical in a way. The problem was that the process was significantly delayed and when he finally obtained the visas a few days before the tournament, he informed us that the flight prices had increased with 500 Euros per person and he requested that we defer part of the final payment. He paid part of it and left 20 000 Euros outstanding, which he agreed in writing to pay between September and December,” Olaizola concluded.
This is a developing story!
