From Vox to a suspicious Mercedes, the incredible summer of the Williams

Iñaki Williams and Nico Williams will have to testify as suspects for misappropriation on January 27 before an investigating court in the Navarrese town of Aoiz after Judge Amaya Morea admitted a complaint against them accusing them of having acquired a high-end vehicle valued at €79,000 without paying the full amount.

According to the complaint admitted by the court, to which ABC has had access, the Athletic Club players executed a plan with "the criminal intent of seizing the plaintiff's vehicle without any compensation."

The legal representation of the allegedly defrauded vehicle sales company (Omnigestión 24 SLU) explains that the younger Williams brother was interested in a Mercedes AMG 63, and in order to acquire that model, the brothers sent an intermediary, Houssni Talhaoui—also under investigation—to negotiate with the company's owner. It was October of last year, and the company's owner proceeded to purchase that model on the international market, acquiring the vehicle for €77,000 in Belgium.

"Nico Williams was the one who assumed the costs of registering the vehicle in Spain, since, ultimately, the vehicle would have been theirs after the transaction," the complaint explains, adding that once the model was in Spain, they offered to trade it in for another Mercedes, a CLA 45 they owned.

The document explains that the Williams family allowed the alleged victim to test drive the car for a few days, invited him to their private box at San Mamés to enjoy a match, and, "once they had gained his trust, they carried out their criminal plan." They asked him to transfer the car "through a simulated sale" and place it in the name of his aunt, Mary Princie Fripomaah, who would act as the supposed buyer of the vehicle.

"By placing the vehicle in the name of Mrs. Mary Princie - a person who is insolvent - it could subsequently be transferred to third parties, preventing the plaintiff from recovering the vehicle or collecting its equivalent value through legal action, since (...) Mary Princie, unlike her nephews, is completely insolvent," explains the company's lawyer, Armando Rodríguez, in the complaint.

Once the vehicle was registered in the name of the Williams' aunt, the seller wanted to take the model the footballers were offering in exchange, but was told it would take a few days for the name change and delivery. Confident, he handed over the new car and from that moment on, "he stopped hearing from the defendants, who at no time made the change of ownership nor, consequently, handed the vehicle over to the plaintiff company, much less made any other form of payment for the Mercedes E63."

"The defendants have illegally incorporated into their economic assets a vehicle of significant economic value at zero cost, thereby obtaining an illicit benefit that is evidence of the deception inflicted on the plaintiff from the outset and carried out by taking advantage of the trust generated," he explains.

The indictment comes against the Williams brothers during a particularly heated summer for both, in which Nico's failed move to Barcelona became one of the biggest soap operas of the summer, before the Navarrese ended up renewing his contract with his club until 2035. In this regard, on Tuesday, Iñaki also made headlines for the press conference he gave upon becoming Athletic Bilbao's first captain, in which he harshly attacked Barcelona for "muddying things up": "That external noise has done a lot of damage."

It wasn't the only controversial topic he addressed. When asked about his status as the first Black captain in Athletic Club history, he asserted that he would continue working to "silence the mouths of the fashionable far right." His comment sparked a stir on social media, including an attack from Vox. Hours later, Athletic Club defended its captain: "You are an example."