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House approved project to democratize the game

so provides a bill authored by the Government, which passed in second debate.

L I professional soccer teams in Colombia will be able to become associations or corporations to limited liability companies and state control will prevent the incursion of illicit money to their coffers.

so provides a bill authored by the Government which was approved Tuesday in the second debate in the plenary of the House of Representatives.

The idea of \u200b\u200bthe initiative is that clubs, where there are professional athletes make the transition to private companies over a period of six months, or if you prefer to remain associations or corporations but full democratization of their property. That is economic regardless of the amount you have invested every contributor will be entitled to one vote only.

According Lina Maria Barrera, Chamber representative, curator and coordinator of speakers Goal of the initiative, the tool searches for "bring more transparency to the teams to organize business and sports clubs to become stronger," he said.

Barrera added that in the controls that have football teams to avoid the contribution of money of dubious provenance, the clubs will be subject to supervision by the Superintendence of Companies and Financial Coldeportes and Information Unit and Financial Analysis (UIAF).

"We put an article that says the accountant and the auditor must certify that the contributions of these institutions are legitimate and which were made in a good way. UIAF has 60 days to give approval to such certification. Would one of the filters to ensure that these funds do not enter these new corporations, "he said.


Didier Burgos, Chamber representative of the 'U' for Risaralda, noted that this transition from sports clubs, "allows the peace to the Colombian people and fans that their clubs will have tools to survive, and additionally allows the transparency of contributions. If we deny this project remain seized with the management of resources under the table, as at any time the clubs tend to disappear, as happens every year, "he said.

The eighth article of the bill also provides that the equipment lose their football sports award, which provides Coldeportes, when its losses during a year are equal to 25 percent of its capital.

Interior Minister, Germain Vargas Lleras, defended the project and highlighted the benefits of democratization sports clubs in other countries.

"In Peru, some years ago, all teams were forced to become joint stock companies and that was what helped a lot to democratize teams are capitalized, whether the stock market and most important, they were subject to certain controls on surveillance, "he said.

The discussion of the initiative is accompanied by the director of Coldeportes, Jairo Clopatofsky, as well as the president of the Colombian Football Federation, Luis Bedoya, and Dimayor president, Ramón Jeshurun.

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