Find article here: http://road.cc/content/news/44413-luxembourg-home-and-offices-leopard-trek-owner-flavio-becca-raided
According to the article, this has nothing to do with Leopard-Trek. This is the relevant excerpt:
"Luxembourg-published tabloid magazine Privat says the police raids were carried out on Tuesday and concern a number of companies with which Mr Becca, whose parents moved to the Grand Duchy from Italy when he was a child, is involved. The website Wort.lu reports that a spokesman for the public prosecutor has confirmed that the raids took place."
Three remarks, to lay this to rest for the Schlecks:
- This has nothing to do with cycling, but the other sponsors won't like this kind of publicity.
- Unfortunately for our man Becca, he gets most to fear from that unwelcome publicity, and though not pronounced guilty of anything, he will be judged already in the court of public opinion.
- Then again, if there are good news for Mr. Becca, they are this: we are at the stage of a Police investigation. Though that means that there were allegations credible enough to launch the investigation, it will take years and years before this gets resolved. The reason being that Luxembourg's Police and Justice system are dramatically understaffed. I reported in the following article the criminal case brought by a Luxembourg farmer against his neighbor, accused of stealing his cow: http://feierwon.blogspot.com/2011/06/la-justice-des-hommes-est-imparfaite.html After 13 years of proceedings, the man still hadn't gotten his cow back. Daisy might be dead by now. So may be most witnesses. But our man and the cow got their day in court: the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg sentenced the Luxembourg Government for violating the farmer's human rights by not providing an adequate judicial system that would have resolved the case in a "timely" way. The Government paid a fine. It did not improve its Judiciary. It did not bring the farmers cow back. The mooooving end.
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