The Prosecutor’s Office requested the documentation related to the stay of members of the Federation in Salobreña (Granada) in August 2020
MADRID, 20 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Majadahonda judge who is investigating the alleged irregularities committed within the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has given the body chaired by Luis Rubiales a period of 10 days to provide the accounting for 2020.
In an order, to which Europa Press has had access, the instructor has admitted the request of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor to require the Secretary General of the Federation to submit the ledger for 2020, “at the highest level of disaggregation”.
The Public Ministry had asked the head of the Majadahonda Investigating Court Number 4 to order this procedure as a result of the response it received from the Football Federation to the request it made regarding the documentation related to the stay of members of the RFEF in Salobreña, Granada, in August 2020.
Judge Delia Rodrigo’s decision to request such documentation from the body is part of the investigation that she has been conducting since last summer as a result of the complaint that she admitted for processing in which the alleged irregularities that would have been committed within the framework of the management of Rubiales at the head of the Federation.
In the complaint, presented by the leader of the National Center for the Training of Soccer Coaches (CENAFE), Miguel Ángel Galán, points out, among other issues, the alleged commissions charged by the RFEF and the company of former soccer player Gerard Piqué because the tournament of the Spanish Super Cup is played in Saudi Arabia. To this complaint was added another from Clean Hands that is also being investigated in court.
Already in October, the judge demanded that the RFEF provide documentation on a “celebration” in Salobreña. As El Mundo reported at the time, it is an alleged private party by Rubiales and other people that would have taken place in August 2020 in a chalet in that town and that, according to his uncle and former chief of staff Juan Rubiales, would have been paid with Federation money.
The RFEF, for its part, denied that it was a party and assured that it was an internal work meeting in which the accommodation was fully borne by each attendee, including Juan Rubiales. “Neither the employees nor the RFEF committed any irregularity,” he said in a statement.
On that occasion, the judge specified that she wanted to know the cost of the stay and if it was paid for with RFEF funds and cards, as well as the exact “reason, date and place” and “attendants who officially attended.”
