He provides him ten days to current the required documentation. He additionally desires to make clear the contracts between the president of the Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, and Saudi Arabia for the sale of picture rights
Justice has requested the previous Barcelona FC participant, Gerard Piqué, at hand over the contract he signed with the Royal Spanish Football Federation (REAF), directed by Luis Rubiales, to carry the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia, whose particulars he introduced on the time. NIUS . A contract that went by means of advantages for the Federation of 40 million euros and for Piqué’s firm of 24, at a charge of six million per yr during which it was performed there.
The Justice of the Peace of courtroom quantity 4 of Majadahonda, who’s dealing with the case, has given Piqué 10 days to ship the required documentation, as ‘El Confidencial’ has introduced. The choose desires to make clear the negotiations between the president of the Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, with Saudi Arabia, during which the Copa del Rey broadcast rights had been bought to different international locations.
The choose thus responds to a request from the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office that on February 6 requested new proof. Among different issues, the contract with the Saudi firm SELA Interesports (which is 70% owned by the Saudi state) is being studied, which is answerable for shopping for sports activities competitions everywhere in the planet. Several invoices had been issued that ended up being cancelled. The Justice of the Peace desires to know the rationale and provides the Spanish Football Federation ten days to current the settlement.
The investigation additionally consists of an bill for 3 million euros deposited and picked up in a CaixaBank account. The bill signifies that it’s the “Definitive Settlement SELA Royal Spanish Football Federation” however within the particulars the phrase “broadcasting rights agreements” seems, which may suggest the published rights.
The Super Cup case
The case broke out nearly a yr and a half in the past when Miguel Ángel Galán, president of the National Soccer Coaches Training Center (CENAFE) denounced the REAF for an alleged crime of unfair administration and corruption in enterprise. He additionally requested that the manufacturing firm Kosmos Global Holding (of which he’s the only administrator Piqué) be investigated for alleged unfair administration, prevarication, bribery and corruption between people.
Galán’s letter towards Rubiales and Piqué was primarily based on the data that El Confidencial carried out on alleged espionage by the president of the REAF, Luis Rubiales, on members of the Government and, however, on irregularities with the Super Cup contract in Saudi Arabia. To this criticism was added one other from Clean Hands that can also be being investigated in courtroom.
The contract of the Federation and Piqué with Saudi Arabia
The framework contract that was closed on April 5, 2019, which underwent a subsequent modification to ensure 10 million euros per season to the federation and 30 to Spanish golf equipment, which ensures a fee of six million per version for Gerard’s firm Piqué and that it was lastly signed in a London resort on September 11, as mirrored within the picture printed completely by NIUS on the time.
The particular phrases of the contract that will carry Spanish soccer to Saudi Arabia had been for six years, for the reason that first three had been assured by each events, and the opposite three rely solely on the need of the Saudis to proceed with the competitors.