Floriana Football Club was yesterday ordered to pay over €22,000 in transfer fees to a football agent representing Nigerian players.

Damien Iwueke filed an action against the club in 1996 on behalf of Trans Afrique Sports Agency. He told the court the club owed him €22,464.48, which was the balance due to him in respect of the transfer of footballer Christopher Chinedu Okoh to the club in December 1995.

Mr Justice Joseph R. Micallef heard that Mr Iwueke, a Maltese national originally from Nigeria, had organised the transfer of Mr Okoh but had not been paid the full fee agreed upon. Floriana FC terminated Mr Okoh’s contract the following year but the court held the agency fees were still due.

The court ordered the club to pay Mr Iwueke €22,464.48.

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