Arsenal / Dein UK Football traffickers exposed by BBC 2 Newsnight

David Dein was born on 7 September 1943 and is claimed to be a life-long Arsenal supporter. He has been on the Board of Directors at the Club for 23 years, since 1983. David Dein has made a lot of money out of football.

Elected as Vice Chairman of Arsenal Football Club a year later in 1984, Mr Dein is also Vice Chairman of the English Football Association and English FA Premier League Representative on the Committee for UEFA Club Competitions.

David Dein will find out this evening if he remains the most influential powerbroker in English football. Dein is standing for re-election at the Premiership summer meeting for one of the five Premier League seats on the FA council.

Mr Dein also played an integral part in the creation of the English FA Premier League and is also Chairman of The Theatre Investment Fund in England. The Theatre Investment Fund is a charitable organisation, founded in 1976 with the aim of supporting and encouraging new producers in the commercial theatre. Its role is to reverse the current decline in new theatre producers and help sustain healthy and profitable commercial theatre across the country. TIF runs workshops and provides a free information and advice service for new producers and in association with SOLT also runs a bursary scheme, which is supported by Arts Council England, the Mackintosh Foundation, Clear Channel Entertainment (UK) and the Equity Trust Fund. The TIF also makes modest investments in new productions.

Married with three children David Dein has now been exposed by Newsnight (UK BBC2) has revealed that Arsenal Football Club made secret payments of a million pounds, to acquire a stake in another club, in contravention of Fifa rules. The payments were made to take over controversial Belgian football club Beveren.

"We did in 2001 provide funds of 1,570,703 euros ( 1,077,481.68 today) by way of loan to a member of a consortium who used the money to assist in stabilising the finances of Beveren. At no time has anyone at Arsenal been contacted by any regulatory or investigatory body with respect to our relationship with Beveren." - the Beveren website (link above) has a direct link to the Arsenal website.(See gif here)

Beveren has been used to bring dozens of players from the Ivory Coast into European football leagues because Belgium has fewer restrictions on players from outside the EU.

Beveren was the route into Europe for Emmanual Eboue ( DOB 04/06/1983 in Abidjan ), who is now at Arsenal, (Eboué is bij Beveren steevast de grote sfeermaker) and more than half of the Ivory Coast's world cup squad. Eboue was able to transfer to Arsenal after marrying Aurelie by whom he has a daughter Clara, and having thereby gained EU nationalaity. (see pic)

In this way, poor Ivoreans were trained up and filtered through Beveren, Dein and his fellow traffickers, meanwhile creaming off multi million Euro deals. Beveren appears to have a strong contact with the Ivorian ASEC of Abidjan (and was the location of Academy Mimosifcom ) from whom Eboue went to Beveren before a 1.54 Mn Pounds Sterling transfer 4 year deal to Arsenal where he joined fellow Ivorian Kolo Touré. Arsenal Manager Arsene Wenger invested £30k in Jean-Marc Gillou's Academy in the Ivory Coast, potentially earning £100k as a Return On Investment .
# AS Monaco funded the Academy whilst Wenger was manager.

Arséne Wenger has even compared Eboué to the legendary Brazilian full-back Garrincha, he has been selected for the Ivory Coast squad for the 2006 World Cup Finals in Germany

Other financiers / coaches / touts so far known to be involved in this squalid tale include Jean Marc Guillou, who is the manager of Beveren, and has very close contacts with Arsene Wenger, the coach of Arsenal.

A company called Goal which recieved #200,000 pounds Sterling interest free loan for a Director Raoul de Waele from David Dein.

In total it appears that £1m became available, by, through, from Arsenal and associated persons and De Waele was given 50% control of Beveren and Guillou was given another 30%. THius was exposed by Belgian police who at first thjought it was Rusiian Mafia money.

Other Ivorian players in the 2006 Ivory Coast world cup include

Arthur Boka (born 2 April 1983 in Abidjan) is a Côte d'Ivoire football defender who currently, as of May 2006, plays for RC Strasbourg.

* 1996-2002: Côte d'Ivoire ASEC Mimosas
* 2002-2004: Belgium K.S.K. Beveren
* 2004-present: France RC Strasbourg

Gilles Yapi Yapo (born January 30, 1982 in Costa Marfi) is a Ivorian football player.

An midfielder, he has played for FC Nantes Atlantique since January 2004.


* KSK Beveren (2001-2004)

Yaya Touré [complete name: Gnégnéri Yaya Touré] (born May 13, 1983 in the Ivory Coast)Academy Mimosifcom - in 1996. 2 years at KSK Beveren (Belgium) - his brother Kolo plays for Arsenal.

Guy Demel (born June 13, 1981 in Paris) is a French-born Ivorian football midfielder.

Demel started his professional career in the French Ligue 2 with Olympique Nîmes. He was discovered and bought by Arsenal F.C., and spent a year there before being transferred to Borussia Dortmund

Koffi Ndri Romaric (born 4 June 1983 in Abidjan) is a Côte d'Ivoire football midfielder who currently, as of May 2006, plays for Le Mans UC72. He had a bad car accident near Liege in August but has recovered.

He has 17 caps for the national team, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup.

* 2001-2003: Côte d'Ivoire ASEC Mimosas
* 2003-2005: Belgium K.S.K. Beveren
* 2005-present: France Le Mans UC72

Barry Boubacar Copa (born December 1979) is a Côte d'Ivoire football goalkeeper who currently, as of May 2006, plays for K.S.K. Beveren. He has 6 caps for the national team and plays to support Tizie.

* 1999: Côte d'Ivoire ASEC Mimosas
* 2000-2003: France Stade Rennais
* 2003-present: Belgium K.S.K. Beveren

All members of the Ivory cup team have played for Belgian / Dutch / French teams with the exceptions of a few in Greece and Italy.

Interestingly of the 30 man current Beveren squad , 15 are Ivorian and their contract all end 30th June 2007 except for Diallo - 2 other players come from Mali and Comgo

Armand 'Mahan' Mandakan
Abdoulaye 'Diabis' Diawara
Traore 'Secreto' Boubacar
Alexandre Tokpa
Abdoulaye 'Junior' Djire
Herman 'Patcheco' Beugre Ahiba
Roméo 'Seka' Affessi
Seydou 'Badjan' Kante
Constant 'Kaiper' Kipre
Sekou Ouattara Verdediger
Mekeme 'Zito' Tamia Ladji
Alain 'Arunina' Koudou
Kouassi Gervais 'Yao' Gervinho
Barry 'Copa' Boubacar
Mohamed 'Dialito' Diallo contract ends 30 jun 2006
Wamoubi 'Man' Bikinda Congo-Braz. 30 jun 2006
Mahamadou 'Mama' Dissa Mali 30 jun 2007

Lawyer gives excuses for human trafficking

Leading sports lawyer Mel Goldberg told BBC 5Live ..."There are two sets of rules you need to look at.

"One is the Premier League rules which prevent clubs owning shares or an interest in another Premiership or Football League club. That hasn't happened here.

"Then there are Uefa and Fifa rules which are similar, about clubs owning shares in foreign teams, and I don't think that's happened either."

Quite. Fucking lawyers. Meanwhile let's hawk these vulnerable kids round Europe and make a few extra millionen Euros. Sport ? Don't make me laugh.