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Bernhard Alpstaeg is the majority shareholder of FC Luzern.
Carlo Emanuele FrezzaReporter football
A week has passed since the strange general assembly of FCL Holding AG. Since then, the fronts have hardened more than ever. Everything now revolves around the question: Was the share deal between ex-President Walter Stierli and Alpstaeg legal?
On February 26, 2019, the board of directors recorded in minutes that the controversial 25 percent stake in Stierli belonged to Bernhard Alpstaeg. But the current board of directors is now making serious allegations. This decision was only made because Alpstaeg had made threats in advance. “Presumably criminally relevant facts have led to this approval being given,” said board member Ursula Engelberger-Koller a week ago.
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An attempt at a retelling
But what actually happened in the weeks leading up to this board meeting? Little is clear. Also because there are hardly any written documents that retell the days. Nevertheless, the “Luzerner Zeitung” recently tried to describe what might have happened with an article from the end of 2019.
The LZ relies on a report by the Lucerne lawyer Marco Bolzern. He used to be the official minute-taker of the board meetings of FCL Holding and represented the shareholders Josef Bieri, Samih Sawiris, Hans Schmid and Marco Sieber in 2019.
The report is about a meeting between Bolzern and Alpstaeg. On February 12, 2019, they had agreed to meet at the Hotel Schweizerhof in Lucerne. Alpstaeg is said to have quickly made it clear that a lawsuit was being prepared in order to obtain the shares via the court. In addition, Alpstaeg disclosed that he had hired a private detective. So if it came to a court hearing, he would make sure that “a lot of dirt washed up to the surface, a marriage fell apart and sexual misconduct became known”.
“It’s an excuse”
Bolzern no longer wants to comment on this topic today. He has no interest in it, he can be aligned on Blick request. The Alpstaeg side, on the other hand, is completely different, which, according to spokesman Sacha Wigdorovits, initially had no knowledge of this article. “These were and still are completely unfounded allegations and defamatory statements, typically without any evidence. Just like everything that the VR accuses Mr. Alpstaeg of clinging to his office. ».
Another important day in the newspaper’s minutes is February 23, 2019. Alpstaeg is said to have made it clear that he would not be involved in covering the deficit until he was officially in possession of the “Stierli shares”. Bieri, Sawiris, Schmid and Sieber gave in. They feared that the deficit would jeopardize the license for the following season. The deadline for submitting license applications was March 4th. Such a scenario would have caused even more chaos in Lucerne at the time, said one of the shareholders at the time.
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‘It was a flimsy, trumped-up pretext. If Samih Sawiris had enough money for his resort and five-star hotel in Andermatt, then he would have had enough money to cover the FCL league license if he really cared about the club,” says Widgorovits .
If the alleged threats – apart from Bolzer’s report – are not backed up with documents, experts say it will be difficult for them to be considered criminal in court.
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