Striker Dadá Belmonte, who belongs to América Mineiro, may be leaving. The player was cited by the Public Ministry of Goiás for alleged involvement in a match-fixing scheme in the new phase of the Maximum Penalty Operation.
Linked to Coelho until 2025, he can be loaned to Juventude until the end of this season.
The initial information on the negotiation was disclosed by Itatiaia and confirmed by O Tempo Sports.
The negotiation takes place in the midst of investigations by the PM-GO, which denounced the player and six other athletes last week.
They are suspected of integrating the match-fixing scheme in matches of the Brazilian Championship.
Dadá is being investigated for allegedly joining the scheme while defending Goiás last year.
Therefore, there is no relationship in the investigations in the period in which he transferred to the Minas Gerais team, this year, according to the Public Ministry.
Still according to the investigations, the game involving the player was between Goiás and Fluminense, on November 9, 2022.
The confrontation was valid for the penultimate round of the Brazilian Championship, when Belmonte would have been suspiciously expelled.
Other players denounced for alleged involvement in match-fixing
The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Goiás (MP-GO) denounced seven players last Wednesday, the 19th, for suspected match-fixing in football.
In addition to the América midfielder, the list includes striker Alef Manga, from Coritiba, and Igor Carius, from Sport. Four other players without a club: Jesus Trindade, ex-Coritiba, Pedrinho, ex-Athletico, Sidcley, ex-Cuiabá, and Thonny Anderson, ex-Coritiba.
The new complaint involves eight other people, some of whom were already under investigation, such as Bruno Lopez, appointed as head of the gamblers’ organization, Ícaro Fernando Calixto dos Santos, Luis Felipe Rodrigues de Castro, Romário Hugo dos Santos, Victor Yamasaki, Thiago Chambo Andrade and Cleber Vinicius Rocha Antunes, a businessman known as Clebinho Fera.
The Goiás PM indicates that there are more than 13 games with suspected match-fixing in Série A of the 2022 Brazilian Championship.
What is the Maximum Penalty Operation?
In recent months, especially after the investigation by the Goiás prosecutor’s office, there have been several cases of players suspected of involvement in a match-fixing scheme.
In all, the Public Ministry of Goiás has already denounced at least 17 people in the Maximum penalty Operation.
The STJD (Superior Court of Sports Justice) punished several players, with penalties that reached football banning.
