A week ago, the former president of the Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, lamented during a television interview that he had no possibility of even paying for a Coca-Cola because all his bank accounts had been frozen. Before the cameras he sold an alleged austerity that had led him to have to live in a modest apartment in Punta Cana. However, the agents of the Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard who traveled to the Dominican Republic to search the home in which He lived with his friend Francisco Javier Martín Alcaide, known as Nene, and they found a luxury villa that rents for more than 1,000 euros per night.
A farm of more than 700 square meters; five bedrooms, five bathrooms and private pool. This is how the town where the former federation president resided until a week ago is being offered, who brought forward his return to Spain after the Civil Guard registered his address thanks to a rogatory commission requested by the judge of Majadahonda (Madrid), who directs the investigation. 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 the same interview given to La Sexta, Rubiales assured 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 Porshe 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.
All of this documentation appears in the summary of the procedure, to which La Vanguardia has had access, in which alleged irregularities in the contracts signed by the RFEF during the Rubiales era are investigated, including that of the Super Cup in Saudi Arabia.
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.
