The lawyer of the owner of Torpedo stated that there were no grounds for exclusion from the RPL

There are no grounds for excluding Torpedo Football Club from the Russian Premier League (RPL). This was reported to Izvestia on July 3 by the lawyer of the owner of FC Leonid Sobolev, Andrei Alyoshkin.

"There are no grounds for expelling the team and there cannot be. <...> For our part, we are ready to provide convincing evidence to the Russian Football Union (RFU) that FC Torpedo had no violations and could not have been. We need to stop speculating on this topic," he said.

The human rights defender added that, in his opinion, the actions of Judge Maxim Perezva look like a provocation.

Torpedo and its fans should not suffer because of individuals."

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Earlier, on June 20, Leonid Sobolev, the owner of the Torpedo football club, and Valery Skorodumov, the director, were charged with bribery. It was noted that the defendants allegedly offered the chief referee over 1 million rubles for winning the match, awarding penalties to opponents or removing their player. Later, the defense of the owner of Torpedo appealed against his arrest.

In addition, on July 1, the president of the Russian Premier League (RPL), Alexander Alaev, announced that next season there is a threat to the integrity of the championship due to the situation with Torpedo. He noted that this preseason is the most difficult in recent times.