Miguel Diez of Urdanivia and Mauricio Simon Fajer were quiet until just 10 days does. His business was going well. With a suitcase roamed the halls of the main TV channels of the world “selling” gold : nothing less than the rights to broadcast the competitions organized by the FIFA . They were happy and prosperous businessmen. Now live hours of concern
Under the name Mountrigi Management Group Ltd these two executives have sold one of the most cherished boots for any television entrepreneur.. Providing football, sport most popular on the planet. And business would be even more round for them if competition did not exist, provided that the FIFA Joseph Blatter seems to have given away.
But what Mountrigi Management Group Ltd. ? An unknown firm for many it is nothing less than the holding of marks Grupo Televisa , including to the recognized logo of the Mexican signal. It has permits for the transmission of world football, which also includes the license for the UEFA Champions League until 2018 . That advantage achieved thanks to generous “negotiations” with the authorities of FIFA has permission to market it in Latin American countries, without intermediaries.
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The explanatory documentation organization based in Switzerland clarified that the sale of those rights includes not only television. In the juicy package marketed by the subsidiary of Mexican giant they are also radio licenses, cellular and Internet. A windfall and aggiornado to present times.
Mountrigi was established in 2001 under the name Videoserpel Ltd. under Swiss law as he stated in an equity record its President Willi Dietschi . “ On December 17, 2001 Videoserpel Ltd. in the act of incorporation Ltd. held with Televisa Mexico Contract of non-monetary contributions, by virtue of which the latter transferred to the first, among others, rights immaterial for the operation of radio, especially trademarks, copyrights, rights of names, slogans, logos and indications to describe programs, rights to titles in newspapers and magazines that are registered in the Mexican Institute of Copyright, copyright goods movies and content rights programs in the field of series, entertainment and comedy, children’s programs, music, contests, culture and talk shows . “
On 12 November 2012 Televisa Mexico and Videoserpel Ltd and subsequently merged business decision that Mexican giant was left with all the rights that the other company was in possession. However, a month later, on December 14, Televisa aired him under contract Assignment of Rights, “ the ownership of the rights to Videopersel Ltd company incorporated under the laws of Switzerland ” according words Dietschi . Four days later, Videopersel change its name to the Mountrigi Management Group Ltd. .
Ten Fajer Urdanivia and Simon are old acquaintances Televisa . Your contacts in the world of television media group transcend the north of the continent, which is something. Thanks to their positions within the Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana ( OTI ) would have made pressure on various chains in the region to “sell” rights managed Mountrigi through links and oiled contacts within FIFA . The first listed as Secretary General of that private body . Card Fajer , meanwhile, carries the title of Director of Programming. And your boss within the OTI is nothing short of Emilio Azcarraga Jean, president and son of the founder of Grupo Televisa .
As stated in the official documentation of the own FIFA , Mountrigi secured licensing rights for transmission-for example the World Cup women’s football to be held in Canada this year. And the subsidiary (? Ghost) Televisa Mexico got customers in record time: in Argentina the rights were transferred to the company Matches and Competitions International and DirecTV International and DirecTV Latin America. In Bolivia, DirecTV Latin America; in Colombia, Mountrigi Management Group sold the license to Caracol TV, RCN Television and DirecTV Latin America
In Costa Rica, the pattern is repeated. FIFA awarded the Televisa rights through Mountrigi and sold it to another chain, in this case Television transmitter of Costa Rica ( Teletic a). In Ecuador DirecTV Latin America will again take center stage in the transaction, as in Peru .
“Researchers want to know how the licensee company became the largest business of FIFA “
Uruguay , the headquarters of Televisa with representation to the FIFA sold the rights to T & International and this in turn to Society Broadcaster Larrañaga , Montecarlo TV and SA Radio and Television Attachments ( Channel 10 ). Venezuela , meanwhile, Mountrigi space negotiated with Galaxy Entertainment in Venezuela . The other countries where Televisa manages the international business of football TV rights are El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Paraguay .
In Mexico, as logical, business stay home : the rights acquired before the heads of the FIFA are exploited by the parent company, ie, Televisa SA <. /> p>
It is hoped that this type of triangulations of television rights has drawn attention not only of the US judicial authorities, but also on the Compliance Officer to be determined on a megatransacción is in dance these days in the United States : the purchase of DirecTV by AT & T could be compromised by the scandal of global proportions .
L Researchers will try to determine what was the mechanism by which a private company is a licensee of the FIFA largest business without there being a public auction and transparent where they could put forward various chains TV . Another striking point is how did Mountrigi Management Group to resell a multimillion dollar business to the highest bidder. And the “best” were always the same: Tournaments and Competitions International and DirecTV Latin America , which in turn owns 40 percent of TOS.
One of those responsible for the firm, the Argentine Alejandro Burzaco , is a fugitive and weighs over him international arrest warrant issued by Interpol. It is one of the six recent red flags that launched the global police agency in connection with the corruption scandal that led a schism within FIFA .
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