Authorities probe Standard Liege’s transfer dealings

Belgian police have searched the Juliper League club's offices and questioned players amid an official inquiry into wages, transfer fees and commissions paid to agents. The players questioned by police were Portugal forward Sergio Conceicao, Serbia defender Ivica Dragutinovic, Croatian midfielder Miljenko Mumlek and Guinea forward Sambegou Bagoura. The club’s director general, Pierre Francois and his predecessor, Alphonse Costantin have also been interrogated by the Liege law courts. "Numerous questions were asked of him (Francois) about the transfer of several players," the club said on its website on Thursday. "No charge was made towards our general director and no mention was made of another meeting at the law courts." Costantin told the Belgian news agency Belga that the court's questions were almost exclusively related to transfers and the commissions paid to players' agents. Before being interrogated by the head of the inquiry at the law courts Francois said: "We went through the same thing in May 2004 when stacks of files were taken away. I do not know where we are in the inquiry now. We thought that everything had been forgotten because we had no official news since then, but now the nightmare begins again."

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