The Criminal Chamber orders a summons to confirm if there are indications of attainable prison duty The Soule case investigates the diversion of funds from the Football Federation Villar is without doubt one of the primary investigated within the case and spent 12 days in jail
While the Negreira case grows in Barcelona, as a result of funds of the Barcelona Football Club to the vp of the Technical Committee of Referees, José María Enríquez Negreira; In the National Court, the Soule case, which investigates irregularities within the Royal Football Federation from the period of Ángel María Villar, good points momentum. Villar himself will as soon as once more be known as beneath investigation. In addition, the previous president of the referees, Victoriano Sánchez Armiño and the previous basic secretary of the identical group, Raúl Massó, might be cited in the identical capability.
It has been ordered this Tuesday by the Criminal Chamber of the National Court, after partially estimating an enchantment by the League towards the extension of the investigation, decreed by Judge Alejandro Abascal. In the identical order, the inspecting Justice of the Peace refused to quote them as investigated, amongst different causes as a result of within the case of Massó and Sánchez Armiño that they had already testified as witnesses. As for Villar, who spent twelve days in jail, he’s the primary particular person investigated within the case and might be known as again when the decide calls him.
In its order, the Chamber rejects one other request from the League: that the RFEF be investigated. The Court explains that this process should be studied pending the results of the statements of the three earlier ones.
The decision signifies that it’s applicable to take a press release as investigated, with out prejudice to the longer term precision concerning the existence of proof, since what’s handy at the moment is to confirm if there are indications of attainable prison duty and if these indications are attributable to the individuals whose assertion requests the League. For the Chamber, the truth that they’ve beforehand testified as witnesses just isn’t an impediment to their subsequent change of situation, beginning to be investigated. “It is simply the existence or not of rational and adequate proof of criminality that has to find out whether or not or not the request for the incorporation of the individuals cited as investigated needs to be addressed.”
In its letter, the League denounced that the procedures carried out led to the existence of a giant quantity of funds manifestly unrelated to the traditional functions for which the LNFP offered the RFEF with the agreed funds, carried out by advantage of an “Agreement concerning the appliance of the attainable the rest generated because of the funds transmitted by the LNFP to the RFEF”, reached and documented, in line with the complainants, by individuals with out attribution or competence to them.
This motion, says the League, was completed behind their backs, in order that the then president and secretary of the CTA agreed and ordered the cost of a collection of invoices, with funds from the LNFP, for “bills utterly unrelated to skilled soccer. , thus altering the vacation spot of the funds delivered by the LNFP to the RFEF, being these subordinated to the president of the latter, who illegally benefited from such funds, for which it’s that the situation of subsidiary civil duty of the RFEF be declared ” .
the swimming pools
For his half, the prosecutor considers that there are indications to grasp that the LNFP receives funds from the gathering of the swimming pools, the management and monitoring of which is entrusted to the Monitoring Commission for the Participation of the Sports Pools, depending on the Higher Sports Council (CSD). ), with out prejudice to the monetary management features carried out by the General Comptroller of the State Administration (IGAE).
One of the obligations established by settlement of the aforementioned Commission from the 2004/2005 monetary yr is that this contribution of public cash be used to cowl the cost of arbitration rights for official soccer competitions, and that every other kind of obligation to be defrayed by way of that the rest would require the prior communication and favorable settlement of the aforementioned Commission.
In this fashion, the LNFP-RFEF coordination agreements materialize, by advantage of which, the LNFP delivers these contributions to the RFEF, the latter assuming its administration, as a right.
The professional stories carried out within the proceedings, in line with the prosecutor, conclude that the contributions made by the LNFP comparable to arbitration charges exceed the bills recorded by the RFEF within the quantity of seven,999,013.18 euros, corresponding to those ideas, indicating that this distinction just isn’t justified and that mentioned funds haven’t been used for his or her objective.
“And from what has been instructed, there are indications that, within the choice to allocate such funds to different varieties of bills, completely different from these offered for within the agreements, each the President and the Technical Secretary of the CTA would have intervened,” concludes the Public Ministry.