Quinton Fortune, former manager face off in court
Publish date: 08 June 2005
Issue Number: 1352
Diary: Legalbrief Today
Category: General
Manchester United soccer player Quinton Fortune has hit back at his former manager\'s demand for one-fifth of his earnings with allegations of fraud and a counter-claim of more than R2m, reports the Cape Argus.
Fortune\'s lawyers have accused soccer coach Colin Gie of using his influence over the Cape Flats soccer star he helped to discover in an unscrupulous manner in order to exact payments and say Gie\'s reprehensible actions amount to fraud in law. They claim Gie used certain of Fortune\'s bank accounts as his own banking facility to make payments to himself and his creditors rather than for Fortune\'s benefit and allege that Gie treated half the payments Fortune made to his Fortune Football Club as his own funds. The claims were made in papers filed before the Cape High Court in preparation for today\'s court battle between Gie and Fortune. Gie claims he discovered Fortune when the budding star was 13 and living in a Kewtown council flat. He wants the High Court to force Fortune to honour the contract he signed with him when he was 15 years old. Full Cape Argus report
