France footballer, Karim Benzema, has admitted to acting as an intermediary in the blackmail case involving teammate, Mathieu Valbuena’s sex tape.
The Real Madrid striker has become embroiled in an affair that could earn him prison time if found guilty, having intervened in a blackmail case on behalf of his friend, Karim Zenati.
Zenati asked Benzema to mediate on behalf of the blackmailers, who were in possession of a sex-tape in which Valbuena could be visibly seen.
The wiretap conversation between Benzema and Zenati, in which the centre forward reports his conversation with the Lyon attacker back to his mate, does not cover Benzema in glory, and indeed appears to indicate that he didn’t simply have benevolent intentions.
He has now admitted that he did participate as the intermediary, confessing to French police: “I had to mediate and I acted as the go-between between Valbuena and Zenati. I am embarrassed for my friend Zenati, because when he was released from prison, and even when he was in jail, I took care of him. We are very close.
“I had a conversation with Zenati on the way to approach the subject with Mathieu Valbuena. The fact that Karim Zenati gained something out of all of this wasn’t my intention. I am shocked. Zenati is a very decent person and is someone I trust.”
