Athletic Membership’s star siblings Inaki and Nico Williams have come out denying allegations they ripped off a automotive dealership, insisting they’re victims of a smear marketing campaign designed to break their reputations.
The pair are going through authorized motion from Omnigestion 24 SLU, a motor buying and selling firm claiming the brothers walked away with an €80,000 Mercedes AMG E63 with out paying for it. They’re due in court docket on January 27, 2026, to testify.
However the Williams lads aren’t taking this evenly. They’ve launched a strongly-worded assertion rubbishing the claims and promising to hit again arduous as soon as they clear their names. The brothers mentioned:
After studying by the media of the attainable existence of a criticism towards us, and after acquiring data, we are able to affirm {that a} criticism has been filed towards us primarily based on details that don’t correspond to the reality.
They imagine the entire case is an try geared toward forcing them to cough up money they do not owe. Their assertion additional added:
Moreover, the criticism filed intentionally conceals and distorts the precise details that occurred. It’s evident that the underlying function of this unfounded criticism is to undermine our private {and professional} picture, searching for to coerce us into making an improper cost.
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Background of automotive deal gone flawed
The dispute apparently stems from a automotive swap deal gone flawed, stories Soccer Espana. The Williams brothers wished to commerce their Mercedes CLA 45 for the pricier AMG E63, utilizing intermediary Houssni Talhaoui Ichouyab to type out the paperwork.
In response to Omnigestion’s model of occasions, the brothers’ aunt Mary Princie Frimpomaah acquired concerned to make buy paperwork, serving to the brothers hold the automotive whereas leaving the dealership excessive and dry with out their CLA 45.
The footballers are having none of it, promising authorized motion towards anybody spreading what they name lies. They warned:
As soon as this complete course of is clarified, we are going to take applicable motion towards all those that have falsely accused us and towards those that, knowingly false, have used this data to break our picture and honour.
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In the meantime, Inaki recently called out Barcelona for allegedly operating a unclean media marketing campaign to stress his youthful brother Nico to signal for them.
