Blick brings light into the darkness: these procedures are what the eternal FCL dispute is about

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Carlo Emanuele FrezzaFootball reporter

The dispute at FC Luzern has been completely opaque to outsiders for a long time. This is also because there are now numerous lawsuits in this area. Answering the questions of who accuses whom of what and why is a Herculean task.

Blick singles out and explains the most important procedures in this dispute between the FCL management and Bernhard Alpstaeg.

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That’s how it all started

Legally, the problems start on December 21, 2022. During the annual general meeting, the board of directors (BoD) of FCL Holding AG filed a lawsuit against Alpstaeg, which held 52 percent of the shares at the time. a criminal complaint for “alleged disloyal business practices and blackmail and coercion” submitted. The VR specifically accuses him of unlawfully acquiring a 25 percent share package from Walter Stierli.

At the same time, the VR deleted the aforementioned 25 percent from the share register, making Alpstaeg a temporary minority shareholder. For this reason, the 78-year-old patron was unable to send the VR into the desert as requested. The Public Prosecution Service’s investigation into this case is still ongoing. Not all witnesses have been heard yet. For example, Alpstaeg’s interrogation lasts just over a month (November 21).

Then comes the answer from Alpstaeg

Alpstaeg’s legal response to the AGM will follow on February 1, 2023. It is sufficient because of the VR’s approach a criminal complaint for “disloyalty in business operations and defamation” and a little later another one for forgery of documents. This criminal prosecution is against the four board members Josef Bieri, Stefan Wolf, Ursula Engelberger and Laurent Prince.

However, there was no investigation in this case because, according to the public prosecutor, there was not enough “material”. However, when asked by Blick, Alpstaeg’s spokesperson Sacha Widgorovits emphasized that Alpstaeg had filed a complaint against the termination of the investigation due to unfair business conduct. This is being dealt with by the subdistrict court judge.

A few weeks later – on March 21, 2023 – it is Alpstaeg’s turn a liability claim for damages against the board members a Request for appointment of an administrator due to organizational shortcomings in club management A. The second point was rejected by the Lucerne court earlier this week. The VR is happy. Alpstaeg, on the other hand, is currently considering whether he wants to move forward with this decision.

Alpstaeg will also have one at the end of March 2023 Lawsuit against FCL Holding AG as a whole A. In this civil case he requests re-registration in the share register. At the same time, he challenged the decisions of the above-mentioned general meeting of December 21. Everything depends on this.

Other smaller sideshows

The most important criminal and civil proceedings to date. Others, such as the complaint about fireworks attacks on Alpstaeg’s house or the now well-known criminal complaint against former FCL chairman Philipp Studhalter, have been deliberately omitted from this list because they have either been suspended – as in the first case – or there is no further investigation initiated.

City wants stadium back

Another open procedure is the so-called Home trap. The procedure was initiated by the city of Lucerne at the end of September because it suspected a violation of the construction contract. Alpstaeg is alleged to have deliberately ignored FCL Holding AG’s right of first refusal. For this reason, the municipality has initiated a repossession procedure for the property, including Swissporarena.

The parties have until the end of the year to reach an amicable settlement. If no solution is found, a mediator will be called in. If that does not help, an arbitral tribunal will ultimately decide. This decision would then be final.

Next trial programmed

But that is not everything. Since this week there has also been a dispute about the shareholders’ agreement (ABV). For Bieri and Co. it is legally binding again, but not for Alpstaeg.

Because here too one ruling applies against the other, it is quite possible that the next lawsuit is imminent. Because if Bieri wants to apply the ABV without Alpstaeg’s permission and thereby kick him out of the shareholder base, he must sue for enforcement. Instead of being shorter, the list of procedures would be just one thing: longer.

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		team	SP	T.D	PT
	1	FC Zurich	10	13	22
	2	BSC Young Boys	9	11	20
	3	FC St. Gallen	10	6	18
	4	FC Lugano	9	3	15
	5	FC Lucerne	10	-1	15
	6	Yverdon Sports FC	10	-4	15
	7	Napkin FC	10	-2	13
	8th	FC Winterthur	10	-2	12
	9	Grasshopper Club Zurich	10	-3	8th
	10	FC Lausanne Sport	10	-5	8th
	11	FC Stade Lausanne Ouchy	9	-8th	8th
	12	FC Basel	9	-8th	5

Source : Blick

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I’m Emma Jack, a news website author at 24 News Reporters. I have been in the industry for over five years and it has been an incredible journey so far. I specialize in sports reporting and am highly knowledgeable about the latest trends and developments in this field.