The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has already delivered to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office the documentation on the management of its president, Luis Rubialesrelating to the contract you signed for the celebration of the Super Cup in Saudi Arabia and what would have generated millionaire commissions (up to 24 million euros) for an intermediary company, Kosmos Global Holding SL, owned by the FC Barcelona footballer Gerard Piqué, behind the back of this organization.
This is what they point out in a brief press release in which this organization affirms that “will collaborate with the Justice, with the transparency that it has always displayed“. Sources from the Federation refuse to detail to El Periódico de España what specific documentation has been delivered, and limit themselves to pointing out that it is “everything that the Public Ministry has requested”.
In their note they only say that it is “the precise documentation to clarify any question regarding recent publications in the media, about the contract for the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia and other related issues.” Among these related issues would also be, as confirmed at the time by the Prosecutor’s Office itself, that relating to the payment of the rent of a house for Rubiales in the center of Madrid.
Both issues would already be being analyzed by José Miguel Alonso Carbajo, the Anticorruption prosecutor who has been assigned the case, according to Vozpópuli. It would be the same prosecutor who investigated another case of corruption in a professional organization, such as the General Society of Authors (SGAE), a matter that resulted in the acquittal of President Teddy Bautista and nine other defendants ten years after the investigation began. .
The prosecutor’s investigation formally opened last week based on the complaint filed by the president of the National Training Center for Football Coaches (CENAFE), Miguel Ángel Galán, in which the commission payment to Gerard Piqué for the Super Cup final was collected, as revealed by El Confidencial according to telephone conversations between the two.
This complaint and subsequent extensions point to possible crimes of corruption in business and unfair administration in the management carried out by Rubiales to the detriment of the patrimony of the Federation.
However, the investigation could get out of the control of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office if the strategy of Clean Hands, the organization that has denounced this matter this Monday in the ordinary courts of Madrid and is still waiting for the matter to be turned over to the corresponding magistrate, which will be known before the end of this week, according to union sources.
In the event that the judge to whom the Clean Hands complaint is assigned agrees to open a proceeding, the Public Ministry must send you everything you’ve researched and you will lose control of the time on the case and the exclusive rights on the request for proceedings to be carried out.
