The Majadahonda judge who is investigating alleged irregularities committed within the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has requested information about a trip that its president, Luis Rubiales, made to New York in 2018.
In an order of July 14, advanced by El Confidencial to which Europa Press has had access, the instructor has requested that “the supporting documents of said trip” be attached to the case, which Rubiales would have made on behalf of the Federation accompanied of a woman.
It should be remembered that the head of the Investigating Court Number 4 of this Madrid city opened the investigation in 2022 after receiving a complaint filed by the leader of the National Center for the Training of Soccer Trainers, Miguel Ángel Galán, to which he later joined the lawsuit filed by the Manos Limpias union.
In the complaints for alleged crimes of corruption in business and unfair administration, among other issues, they pointed to the alleged commissions charged by the RFEF and the company of former Futbol Club Barcelona player Gerard Piqué for the Spanish Super Cup tournament to be played in Saudi Arabia.
Reference was also made to a “pleasure trip” to New York that Rubiales would have paid for with money from the Soccer Federation. “The trip would have occurred between October 31 and November 4, 2018, just five months after becoming president of the federal entity,” according to the complainants.
The Majadahonda judge agreed to open preliminary proceedings since she considered that the denounced facts had “the characteristics of an alleged crime of unfair administration and corruption in business.” In the framework of the investigations, the head of the court requested information from Piqué; Specifically, she asked him to provide the contract that her company Kosmos signed with the RFEF.
The investigation continues its course after last June the magistrate extended the investigations for another six months. Apart from this procedure, Rubiales accumulates at least two complaints before the Higher Sports Council (CSD) for an alleged serious infraction after she kissed the Spanish team player Jenni Hermoso on the lips after winning the Women’s Soccer World Cup in Australia.
