Luis Rubiales got off the plane at the Barajas airport on April 3 with a document under his arm. He knew that the agents of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard would be waiting for him to arrest and interrogate him. When they received him in Madrid, two agents from the Armed Institute found a document in the pocket of a jacket that he kept in his backpack.
As it appears in the document of seizure of effects, which appears in the summary to which La Vanguardia has had access, the document is a computer document about the collaboration between Sela and the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF).
Sela is the Saudi company through which Rubiales negotiated to bring the Super Cup to this country of Saudi Arabia. However, although the agreement was between both companies, there was a third actor, Kosmos Sports, owned by former footballer Gerard Piqué. For his intermediation work, he received at least four million euros from Sela, which he then used to invest in FC Andorra, according to the investigation.
These contracts to bring the Super Cup to Saudi Arabia are the origin of the investigation initiated by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and which has led the head of the Investigative Court number 4 of Majadahonda (Madrid) to promote Operation Brody for which Rubiales has been, Former president of the RFEF arrested, along with other senior officials of the federation as well as various businessmen.
According to the summary, the agreement between the Saudis, the federation and Kosmos was to celebrate the Super Cup for three seasons for 28.5 million euros. The agreement between Sela, RFEF and Kosmos was reflected in seven contracts. For this operation, Kosmos would receive a tax-free remuneration of 4 million euros.
Why did Rubiales carry that document with him knowing that he was going to be detained on his return from the Dominican Republic? Investigators suspect it could be an attempt to divert attention from his private business.
Since Rubiales was forced to resign from the RFEF after the global scandal over the kiss of player Jenni Hermoso last September, he looked for new businesses in the Dominican Republic dedicated, mainly, to the hotel world.
Investigators have confirmed that in recent months he has stayed for long periods at the Caribbean hotel and even had his own account in one of its banks. Anticipating that the former president of the RFEF would not be in Spain when the police operation broke out, the judge sent a rogatory commission to the Dominican Republic demanding judicial assistance to be able to search her home there as well as seize her electronic devices.
After the approval of the Dominican justice system, UCO agents moved to search the home where he lived with his friend Francisco Javier Martín Alcaide, known as Nene, which turned out to be a luxury villa that is rented for more than 1,000 euros per night.
The entry and search of this farm, where he lived with Nene, who is also accused in the case, took place on April 1, ten days after the raid in different parts of Spain.
The UCO seized seven mobile phones, three computer storage devices, a Rolex watch and two high-end vehicles. In an interview with La Sexta, Rubiales stated that he had to travel around Punta Cana with an “eight-year-old SUV” that he could not even put gas in because his accounts were blocked.
He could be referring to the 2016 Porsche Macan S that was seized. The agents have found two payment receipts for that vehicle for a value of $35,925 and $882. They were carried out on March 8 of this year, a couple of weeks before the Civil Guard operation exploded.
After the blocking of the accounts, the former federation president has asked the judge investigating the case to allow him to use them because he needs a “reasonable” amount of money to live, defending that his home is in Granada and he pays 1,500 euros in rent for it. a month, in addition to bills and food.
In a letter, dated this Monday, she requests access to that account to pay child support for her three daughters. Also to pay for the medical insurance of her mother, who locked herself in a church last summer on a hunger strike to ask for justice for her son.
