Recently, Chinese football has been plagued by a series of scandals, and a number of players, coaches and even senior members of the football association have been taken away for investigation. As this storm intensified, the well-known football journalist Wang Qinbo broke another fierce news. The reporter claimed that there had been Chinese Super League clubs that had cooperated with agents to illegally transfer large amounts of assets overseas. This may mean that this scandal in Chinese football may soon escalate again.
Wang Qinbo commented under his personal column "Wang Qinbo: China's football gambling needs to sweep out of national borders": "This investigation is very valuable. Money launder master Holabchin was most active in China, and assets illegally transferred overseas through player trading premiums along with several Chinese Super League club executives were calculated in hundreds of millions of euros. ”
Holabchin is a well-known agent and intermediary in European football and has managed a number of heavyweight transfers. During 2015~2018, Holabchin had a close relationship with some Chinese Super League clubs. For example, Shanghai SIPG brought in Oscar, Jiangsu Suning introduced Ramirez and Teixeira, Shanghai Shenhua introduced Tevez, and Guangzhou Evergrande Paulinho two transfer transactions were all made by Holabchin.
And in the few deals that Holabchin helped the Chinese Super League team complete, there were indeed some incredible premiums. For example, Jiangsu Suning signed the lesser-known Teixeira from Shakhtar Donetsk and paid a high transfer fee of up to 50 million euros, while Teixeira's market value at that time was only about 25 million euros. Shanghai SIPG brought in Oscar from Chelsea, when Chelsea's transfer fee for Oscar was about 30 million euros, and SIPG directly paid twice the premium.
Judging from the huge transfers of several Chinese Super League teams handled by Hohrabchin, its premium has indeed reached the level of "in hundreds of millions of euros" as Wang Qinbo said. So, is there really an illegal transfer of assets? On the bright side alone, there are four Chinese Super League clubs linked to Khorabchin, will they also be involved? All this remains to be seen.