German police have wrapped their finding in the saga of Gambian-born footballer Bakery Jatta who is being accused of fraud and lying to authorities.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old was last month cleared of wrong doing in the form fraud by his home district office. It comes after BILD, a widely circulated German tabloid, claimed the Gunjur-born is not who he presents himself to be.<\/p>\n
The news outlet claimed to have blown the cover of the Gambian suggesting his name is Bakary Daffeh and once played for the Smiling Coast\u2019s U-20s in an African youth qualifier.<\/p>\n
In details of a blizzard of insinuations, Jatta was also accused of lying to authorities of being an unaccompanied 17-year minor in a bid to gain football advantage.<\/p>\n
Bild, based what it called findings on website links \u2013allegations found to be too good to be true by the Hamburg home office\u2019s independent probing.<\/p>\n
Outcome of the home office\u2019s peep into the saga poured cold water into the German Football Association investigations consequently leading to four clubs into withdrawing complaints lodged against the winger\u2019s second tier side Hamburg Football Club.<\/p>\n
Bakery -the subject of jeering at stadiums throughout those torrid moments \u2013would later blast the probing a \u2018witch-hunt\u2019 in a communiqu\u00e9 intimated to Foroyaa Sport and other newscasters.<\/p>\n
However, the saga has taken a somewhat twist on the heels of fresh evidence supplied to German police by a refugee camp that once housed the attacker four years ago.<\/p>\n
The trajectory has angered the player\u2019s representatives who\u2019re threatening defamation charges.<\/p>\n
Police have now concluded their probing but said nothing new has emerged as at yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
German police have wrapped their finding in the saga of Gambian-born footballer Bakery Jatta who is being accused of fraud and lying to authorities. The 21-year-old was last month cleared of wrong doing in the form fraud by his home district office. It comes after BILD, a widely circulated German tabloid, claimed the Gunjur-born is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":2116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[903,1274,1273,905],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-bakery-jatta","tag-fraud-saga","tag-gambian-footballer","tag-german-police"],"yoast_head":"\n