2023-08-26 08:59:05
The possible action of the Prosecutor’s Office for finding criminal the kiss on the mouth that planted the world champion Jennifer Hermoso is not the only one problem that the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubialesyou can find in the courts. In addition to the recurring complaints with his uncle and former chief of staff, Juan Rubiales, who has sued him for harassment and coercion, the manager has pending a case for alleged corruption which has been processed for more than a year in the Majadahonda Investigating Court number 4, whose head investigates him together with the former Barça footballer and president of Kosmos, Gerard Piqué.
Also, and as is the case with the complaint for possible sexual assault that the prosecutors of the National Court are currently analyzing, it was the Association of Transparency and Democracy in Sport, led by the president of CENAFE, Miguel Ángel Galán, who took action against Rubiales. and Piqué after some information from ‘El Confidencial’ that pointed to a agreement between Saudi Arabia and Kosmos for which the culé company pocketed 24 million euros in commission. The commissions for taking the Spanish Super Cup to the Saudi kingdom would have had the knowledge and support of Rubiales in an operation carried out behind the federation’s back.
Despite the fact that the facts have been judicially investigated since the end of June 2022 -the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office kept some preliminary proceedings open- the reality is that the months go by without Rubiales or the former Barça player having been summoned to testify as defendants by judge Delia Rodrigo.
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Prosecutor’s Office awaits documentation
Anti-corruption sources point to The Newspaper of Spainfrom the Prensa Ibérica group that the reason for the delay is the need to analyze the documentation that it has been sent by the federation itself in relation to the contract that Rubiales signed for the celebration of the Super Cup in Saudi Arabia and that would have generated millionaire commissions to the intermediary company owned by Piqué. There are also missing documents claimed through a letter rogatory sent to Andorra -to follow the trail of the money collected by Piqué- and the prosecutor in the case José Miguel Alonso Carbajo prefers to have things clear before requesting the appearance of those investigated.
In this same procedure, other allegedly criminal acts attributed to Rubiales as president of the Federation are being investigated, such as the spying on the president of AFE, David Aganzo, the housing aid paid by the Federation and also the expenses passed to the Federation for an alleged “pleasure trip” to the US with a woman two other federation workers, which Rubiales has always denied was personal.
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The crimes that are attributed indicatively to the today still responsible for the Spanish Football Federation are those of unfair administration and corruption in business. Despite not yet having been called to testify, one year after the opening of the investigations, Rubiales submitted a brief before the judge requesting the file and charging against the accusations made against him, and in which he states that he is nothing more than a victim of “media terminals”.
Party in Salobrena
The judicial investigation reaches a party celebrated by the president of the Federation, Luis Rubiales, in a chalet in Salobreña together with his collaborators, as it was possible to make payments with corporate credit cards. He wants to know, among other things, if there were payments with corporate credit cards.
In addition, and since last September, as reported by El Periódico de España, the General Intervention of the State Administration (IGAE), a body dependent on the Ministry of Finance and Public Function that is in charge of controlling the economic-financial management of the public sector, research accounting now of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) in relation to the denounced facts.
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If he is called to testify in the coming months, it will not be the first time that Rubiales has been called to justice as an investigator for suspicions about economic management of the corporations he presides over.
It was already in 2019 in Valencia for what is known as the ‘Architect Case’, in which she was accused of having tried to pay a personal debt with funds from the Association of Spanish Soccer Players, a union that he presided over for seven years, although the courts ruled in his favor. This case also had a drift for assault by the architect Yasmina Eid-Maccheh, who renovated her house and ended up being sentenced for harassment of the leader and her minor daughters.
Another separate case is exacerbated confrontation that Rubiales maintains with his uncle Juan, who was his chief of staff with cross complaints between the two. The nephew accuses the uncle of illegally obtaining information and revealing secrets, while the uncle accuses the nephew of harassment and coercion.
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