The Court of First Instance and Instruction Number 4 of Majadahonda has admitted for processing the complaint filed against the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, and the FC Barcelona player Gerard Piqué for the scandal of the Spanish Super Cup in Arabia Saudi.
The complaint was filed by the president of the National Training Center for Coaches (Cenafe) and an affiliate of the RFEF itself, Miguel Ángel Galán, the same whose complaint before the Administrative Court of Sport (TAD) caused the dismissal in 2017 of the then president of the RFEF, Ángel María Villar, this same Tuesday ratified by the Supreme Court. Galán accuses Rubiales and Piqué in that lawsuit of “business corruption and unfair administration” for the 24 million euros that a Piqué company charged for mediating with Saudi Arabia to bring this competition to that country for six editions (2018-2024 ).
In an order dated this Monday and notified to the parties this same Tuesday, that Majadahonda court admits the complaint and opens preliminary proceedings for understanding that the reported facts “have characteristics of the alleged crimes” of which Galán accuses Rubiales and Pique.
However, the judge’s order, to which ABC has had access, does not expressly mention both, because it considers that “the nature and circumstances of such events or the people who have participated in them have not been determined.” She precisely for that she initiates the investigative proceedings agreed on this Monday, in which she must determine if she charges Rubiales, Piqué and other possible implicated.
In addition, the order of the Madrid court requests that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor be transferred, the first instance before which Galán denounced and which already opened its corresponding investigation for these same events last month.
