Vancouver Canucks forward Elias Pettersson was cheated in his native Sweden.
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This is what his father Thorjorn Pettersson told the Swedish newspaper. Sundsvall newspaper.
The 26-year-old hockey player purchased a luxury home worth $2.4 million in Danderyd. He posted bail of $240,000, or 10% of the total.
“It turned out that there were many defects in the house that needed to be corrected,” said Torbjorn Pettersson.
So the Canucks player decided to sue the real estate agent responsible for the deal and got the mortgage cancelled, but was unable to get his deposit back.
In addition, the real estate agent is now in prison. He received a six-year prison sentence on fraud charges unrelated to the Pettersson case. Let's just say it further reduces a National League player's chances of getting his money back.
“The money is lost. We just need to forget about it and move on,” the father said.
Pettersson will make $11.6 million annually through the 2031-32 season.
