He attributes to them alleged crimes of corruption, unfair administration and false documentation
MADRID, 23 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Clean Hands has presented this Monday before the Courts of Plaza de Castilla, in Madrid, a lawsuit against the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales; the general secretary of the Federation, Andreu Camps; the Football Club Barcelona player Gerard Piqué and two other people for alleged irregularities in the management of the RFEF.
In the 16-page document, to which Europa Press has had access, the union has explained that it is taking legal action against these people for the alleged commission of ongoing crimes of corruption between individuals, unfair administration and false documents.
Clean Hands has filed its complaint after last week the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office opened investigation proceedings for alleged irregularities in the management of Rubiales at the head of the Federation that would include the contract for the Spanish Super Cup to be played in Saudi Arabia.
In its letter, the union has reviewed the information published by El Confidencial in which it is assured that Rubiales would have rejected a “more advantageous” agreement with Qatar but without “the 24 million for Piqué” and that he would also have profited from the sale to Saudi Arabia of a sponsorship of the Spanish National Team.
Likewise, he has reviewed the publications in which it is collected that Rubiales would have paid for a “pleasure trip” to New York with money from the Football Federation. “The trip would have taken place between October 31 and November 4, 2018, just five months after becoming president of the federal entity,” according to the complaint.
In addition, he highlighted the news in which it is said that Rubiales would have received aid from the RFEF to pay the rent of a “luxury” home in Madrid “without having the right to it”, because he was registered in the Spanish capital. Specifically, it is an income of 3,100 euros per month that the Federation itself had to pay.
“The payment of housing with money from the RFEF, which receives public funds from State Lotteries and Bets and the Higher Sports Council up to 17 million euros a year, may have criminal consequences, since the Federation, although it allowed its president enjoy financial aid for housing, it was essential that he had his domicile outside of Madrid,” the union stated in the letter.
For Clean Hands the actions described in the complaint constitute an alleged crime of unfair administration. In line, in addition, he has made reference to the alleged crime of falsifying a public document due to the existence of a “false invoice” of 11,764 euros to “make up” the monitoring that a detective company would have carried out in 2019 to spy on the president of the Association of Spanish Soccer Players (AFE), David Aganzo.
In addition to requesting that the alleged actions of Rubiales, de Camps and Piqué be investigated, the union has demanded that an investigation be directed against Tomás González Cueto and Ramón Caravaca Magariños, partners of GC Legal, for allegedly having collaborated in the reported events.
In this sense, he has requested that “the practice of as many procedures as are necessary to clarify the facts denounced” be agreed upon and adopted, including the summons of the five people against whom he directs his complaint.
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