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Slaughter's Equatorial Guinea passport he received in 2015 was 'false in nature,' and the player is being prosecuted for it. If he is pronounced guilty, Barca will ask basketball authorities to strip Real Madrid of their titles in 2015 when Slaughter was on the roster.

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Marcus Slaughter will be prosecuted for falsifying a passport back in 2015 while playing for Real Madrid.

Marcus Slaughter

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A case has been opened in the 27th Court of Madrid, and a trial will commence, La Vanguardia writes.

The local authorities had been looking for Slaughter and former Fuenlabrada player Andy Panko, who's also involved in the case, for multiple years. It was unsuccessful to the degree that the court had to issue a search warrant in the summer of 2023 (requested by FC Barcelona) to serve the required court documents to the defendants. Only now have the court documents been legally presented to all entities.

Slaughter received an Equatorial Guinea passport in 2015, just days before the start of Copa del Rey. The procedure was done so that the big man could compete as a local in the mini-tournament due to the Cotonou Agreement.

It was later found out that the information provided on the passport was false. Namely, both Slaughter and Panko's passports shared the same passport number - A001696. Additionally, pages 45 and 46 were missing. The documents were "false in nature, since although they were originally legitimate documents, their entire biographical pages had been replaced," the prosecutor said.

The Embassy of Equatorial Guinea has admitted that the documents are false, but the case was prolonged due to multiple delays.

To acquire the passports, Slaughter and Panko have previously admitted having paid 35,000 euros in cash each to Richard Nguema, a former Real Madrid youth player who had contacts in the government of Equatorial Guinea, La Vanguardia adds. The Prosecutor's Office requests sixteen months in prison for those accused of document falsification.

Real Madrid won both Liga Endesa and Copa del Rey in 2015. As such, FC Barcelona, who have been actively involved in the case for the entirety of the nine-year period, will ask the basketball authorities to strip Real Madrid of the titles if Slaughter is pronounced guilty.

Real Madrid are not named as defendants in the case, as neither of the plaintiffs claim the organization had knowledge of the wrongdoing.

"We will ask that Madrid be stripped of its titles," Barca's lawyer Jordi Pina said on RAC1 radio.

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