Luis Rubiales. (Image: AFP)
During his time in command of Spanish soccer, former chief Rubiales overhauled the format of the Spanish Super Cup in 2020, making a 4-workforce mini-event and shifting the competitors to Saudi Arabia as a part of a deal that was reportedly value 40 million euros.
Spanish police have arrested not less than six folks and raided the places of work of the Spanish soccer federation as a part of a corruption and cash laundering investigation that features suspicions concerning the federation’s cope with Saudi Arabia to take the Spanish Super Cup to the Middle Eastern nation.
Spain’s Guardia Civil stated that they raided the federation’s places of work close to Madrid and a residence belonging to former federation president Luis Rubiales within the southern metropolis of Granada on Wednesday. Police stated that Rubiales was not among the many six arrested.
The workplace for Spain’s state prosecutors stated {that a} whole of 11 premises have been raided for paperwork and that it anticipated the operation to conclude with seven arrests and the identification of 5 extra folks as being below investigation.
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Rubiales stepped down in September after inflicting a global scandal for kissing a participant on Spain’s girls’s workforce with out her consent through the awards ceremony for the Women’s World Cup in August.
During his time in command of Spanish soccer, Rubiales overhauled the format of the Spanish Super Cup in 2020, making a 4-workforce mini-event and shifting the competitors to Saudi Arabia as a part of a deal that was reportedly value 40 million euros (then $42 million) per event for the federation.
Prosecutors opened a probe of that deal in 2022 following leaked audio between Rubiales and participant Gerard Piqué concerning tens of millions of {dollars} in commissions.
