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Jerusalem – Betar Jerusalem sponsor Guma Aguiar was forcibly admitted to the Abarbanel Psychiatric Hospital overnight Wednesday following a court order.
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Aguiar apparently come out with a series of seemingly bizarre remarks, including a claim to having met Gilad Schalit in Gaza.
Israel Radio reported that the Brazilian-American energy tycoon had only arrived for the last 20 minutes of Saturday’s soccer match at Teddy Stadium between Betar and Bnei Sakhnin, saying his late arrival was due to him having visited the captured IDF soldier.
Associates of the 32-year-old were quoted by the radio station as saying that they felt he was behaving in a particularly strange manner over the last couple of weeks.
Referring to the “meeting” with the captured solider in an interview with Jerusalem weekly Kol Ha’ir Aguiar reportedly said that “I told Schalit I hope to see him home already in the next few days. He said he wanted me to tell his family how much he loves them and Israel, and that he hopes it will all be over soon. I have saved thousands of people, not only Gilad Schalit, and I want to be able to save thousands of people every day, and not only Gilad Schalit.”
Aguiar’s family released a statement Thursday morning saying, “Guma Aguiar has been subjected for a prolonged period of time to intensive emotional pressures caused by malicious court cases in the United States concerning past business dealings with his uncle.”
His family said that he was the “victim of a campaign of invasive surveillance and false accusations that generated what amounted to psychological terrorism.”
On Wednesday evening, according to the statement, “Guma’s family entered him into a healthcare facility in Israel to obtain suitable examinations and treatment as needed. He will undergo tests for the next two weeks and his situation will be closely monitored by the Aguiar family.”
In October, Aguiar said he had hired top legal expert (and Jpost.com blogger) Alan Dershowitz to defend him in a US case where he claims that police officers assaulted him.
Aguiar was arrested after allegedly driving recklessly. The American Fox News network reported that he confessed to the officers that arrested him to having smoked a marijuana cigarette.
He claimed that the police would not let him talk to either his mother or his attorneys.
Last month, Aguiar proclaimed himself the new Betar owner, five months after giving the team $4 million as a sponsor.
The 32-year-old Brazilian-American told The Jerusalem Post that Russian businessman Arkadi Gaydamak, who has owned Betar for the last four years, agreed to transfer ownership to Aguiar during meetings in Moscow this month.
Aguiar has been trying to take control of the club since the summer, but has run into legal problems due to debts incurred by Gaydamak while he was directly involved. The Russian left Israel in November 2008 after losing the Jerusalem mayoral election and has yet to return.
Despite the jubilant tone of Aguiar’s announcement one of his spokesmen denied the deal had been completed.
ess kumt tzu emm for being mefasem such a big chillul hashem
Maybe it is a Dibuk, & the Ex chief of EJF will excort it for the right price.
Toms Just As Crazy:)
The real one responssible for Leib Tropper’s demise was Guma Aguiar. He’s the one who paid for these tapes to be fabricated in order to bring shame to his uncle Tom Kaplan through Tropper. I met Aguiar once he seemed like a nice guy, but deffinettely not all there. He also said here in Israel at one time that he was Moshiach.
Isn’t he the one who was honored by Aish Hatorah and Chabbad? They have to be more careful who they honor and not just go for the money.
Tropper stepped on this guys toe a little to hard and look what he did to Tropper. GUMA is very dangerous.
I think peple owe Tropper an apology after they see who the guy who releasd all the “evidence” is.
Guma had also claime to be Mashiach.
Enough said.
This is the punishment for one who is Mevazei Talmidei chachomim.
no need for a psych admission / give a mg. of risperdal & let him sleep it over this ussualy is a pre “mania” some a typical is all that it needs
All I can say lo lachacumim lechem
Wishing him a refuah shleimah. He seems to have done a lot good for a lot of good causes in Israel. He might just be suffering from an acute case of exhaustion – just wishing him well! Why people need to go overboard with overdoing makes no sense.
What’s sad is that in truth Guma Aguiars psychosis should have no bearing on what really happened. Tropper was videod and recorded doing and saying things non befitting a Frum Jew to put it lightly. Tropper admitted and never claimed the tapes were faked. They are as real as real gets. They were professionally authenticated as well not to mention that the technology to fake such a tape doesn’t exist. Do the reserach if you don’t believe me. Who cares if Guma helped Shannon “entrap” him? Even if he is certifiably mad it doesn’t effect Troppers guilt one iota. Of course Troppers defenders don’t argue with logic and after reading his defenders comments I know that they grasp at straws to defend him so nothing they argue should surprise me.
This man apparently is an unusual genius. Perhaps that is the source of his problems. Perhaps he is being poisoned by drugs by people seeking to control him and his billions of dollars and business operations. I hope the Physicians can help him regain control of his senses and HKBH help him find his way. Obviously he has a good heart or he would not be donating money to Yiddish charities. Rafuah shleima Guma..
The bottom line is that Tropper is a disgrace to frummer yidden, whoever it was that was instrumental in exposing him. People who defend Tropper and attack Guma are not defenders of yiddishkeit but destroyers of yiddishkeit. Not because Guma is a tzaddik, but because they are missing the point. The point is that Tropper screamed from the rooftops that he represents authentic frum yiddishkeit, and meanwhile it turns out that this claim was very distant from the truth. Anyone who questions the authenticity of the recordings is either a rosho or they are in denial. Either way they are adding to our boosha. HaShem Yerachem! Please, HaShem, defend us from those who are trying to defend us!!
there are those who are actively trying to talk-him-out of supporting the outreach-programs of chabad & aish!
they view his open-haded charity as a threat to their GOALS with him!
this is surely the work of 2 well known “fake” friends of his!
Horav Tropper Shlita NEVER admitted ANY of the things he is accused of!! The Rov NEVER said the tapes are EMES and a true unaltered account of his conversations!! The Rov is a Rosh Yeshiva and a manhig – at the very least he has a chezkas kashrus. He is close with MANY gedolim who hold him with high esteem. These gedolim possess da’as Torah!!
In contrast, the accuser admits to doing unmentionable acts. Is not a kosher aidus and lacks nemonus!! To complicate matters, there might have been personal motivation to fabricate allegations.
When we put everything on the scales of emes, and add the weight of Guma’s involvement, his relationship with the organization, his uncle, Horav Tropper, and the status of his wife’s Jewishness…there is only one conclusion: That gedolim and da’as Torah are ALWAYS right, and the rest is nothing but a blood libel to disgrace our Yeshiva system and faith in our leadership.
Reb Leib Shlitah, keep shtark in your bitochon! Look at your supporters – the greatest gedolim in America, and shrug off the opposition who seek to snuff out Torah!!!
Guma may be nebech not 100% and needs medical help but he is great baal tzedaka
for frum jewish causes and means well.
tropper is certified scum. Those that seek to defend him are shikkur from drinking from his drugged $$$$$ trough. It is sad to see this chillul Hashem being defended in any way. (Of course it may be tropper himself posting)
What is happening to the Brazilians? First the dybbuk case is diagnosed by the badatz’ unlicensed psychiatrist as mentally ill, now its Guma…. Is it something in their water supply? A kind of montezuma’s revenge? Or a mistranslation of the term brazil-nut.
What more can be said ?
Guma is well intentioned and, as suggested, must be suffering from exhaustion and deep diappointment in a character like tropper, a charlatan and immoral faker.
Does poor souls that keep on insisting that tropper is a tzaddik, etc., must themselves be brought to mental health experts. The tapes and videos, my poor souls, leave nothing to the imagination. If you continue to believe in him you are no better than those that believed, and continue to believe, in Shabsi Tzvi, yemach shemoy vezichroy. You are a danger to Yiddishkeit. If a low life faker like tropper can be called a tzaddik of rabbi by you, then he is on the same level as Shabsi Tzvi and you are followers of Shabsi Tzvi.