Guy Ben Ziv
Barak Abramov (Radad Jabara)
Drama: The Jerusalem municipality has decided not to guarantee a bank loan that Barak Abramov, the intended owner of Betar Jerusalem, wants to take out in the amount of NIS 10 million, this of course as part of the club’s purchase.
The municipal attorney general forbade her to give the bail and at the same time the municipal comptroller began to ask questions about the bail, when the Movement for Quality of Government also sent a letter to the municipality on the subject. Abramov, as mentioned, conditioned the purchase on the municipality giving him the financial guarantee for it.
In addition, they are waiting for the police to approve the deal, but officials at the club estimate that matters with the police will be settled after they present that the agreement is legal and proof that there are no personal money transfers to Moshe Hogg. The club says about the loan application: “An application was submitted and we were told that the application will be considered positively only when the new owner contacts the municipality.”
The municipality initially wanted to give the financial guarantee to Abramov and thought they would find a solution to this, but as stated now we reveal that the attorney general forbids the municipality to make such a move. It may be that if the intended owner had known in advance the answer of the municipality he would not have signed the purchase at all.
One of the council members even said in recent days: “The municipality should not give a guarantee to the owner of a football team, that someone who can meet the conditions and pay everything will come to the team.” Moshe Leon, the mayor, knows that Beitar’s relegation to the first division and from there to the disintegration and disappearance is a stain on the entire city, and he will not want it to happen in his shift.
In any case, the municipality says that they will help Betar in ways they can when it has a buyer, such as during the Corona they did not take use fees at Teddy Stadium and increased the allowances. Abramov is not willing to take the risk of about 40 million NIS debts That the municipality will give the guarantee.
Meanwhile, Bnei Yehuda’s husband, for his part, enters a very sick bed with a healthy head and comes to save the group. He is looking at another way to try to get the money, but the municipality’s dramatic decision may cause him to carefully calculate his steps and the personal risk he will be willing to take.
