2023-11-14 14:59:13
The Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court believes that José María Timón Iglesiaswho served as cabinet director of the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales, has “deliberately” failed to tell the truth in his witness statement held this Tuesday at the National audienceas sources from the Public Ministry explain to this newspaper.
Specific, Timón has denied before the head of the Central Court of Instruction number 1, Francisco de Jorge, that he witnessed pressure on the player Jenni Hermoso to publicly justify the forced kiss on the mouth after the World Cup final in Sydney (Australia).
The aforementioned sources highlight that this former official of the Federation, who has appeared with the obligation to tell the truth, has come to contradict the versions of other witnesseswhich in turn were also contradictory to each other.
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On the other hand, from the statement of the person responsible for regulatory compliance of the Federation, Javier Puyol Morenocontinue from the Public Prosecutor’s Office, The “enormous irregularities” that would have occurred in a meeting that took place on August 23 in Rubiales’ office are deduced. In it, the press chief Patricia Pérez would have suffered pressure so that he could say that the kiss was consensual. These alleged coercions would have occurred with the intention that the Federation’s internal procedure would exonerate its former president, as ended up happening.
The Integrity report excused Rubiales without having taken the player’s statement. The Federation used statements in the press by the forward of the Spanish National Team to defend the version that the former president of the RFEF wanted, as admitted by the former head of Communication of the federative body Pablo García Cuervo.
Puyol Moreno has slipped before the judge that there could have been pressure on Patricia Pérez in the internal investigation of the Integrity Department of the Federation, according to Efe. The Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court considers that this testimony shows that some of the participants in the meeting on August 23 “they have missed the truth” in his statements.
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