Presidential candidate of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Antonio Torres He was sentenced by the 27th High Criminal Court of Madrid to one year in prison and 6 months fine for insulting and slandering the current head of RFEF, Luis Rubiales.
The exact sentence refers to the statements made by former referee Antonio Torres about Luis Rubiales in an interview with the program. The ‘El Partidazo’ of the COPE chainand withdrawn during the trial.
According to RFEF sources, this could be the first of a series of attacks. Decisions similar to journalists, columnists, humorists and sociologists who would attend “smear campaign” that the head of the party has “suffered” since last April this 2022.
Since that April, when the private talks of the RFEF president began airing, he has denounced and insisted on a “campaign” against the Spanish federation president, Luis Rubiales. source of published speeches.
Both Rubiales himself and the RFEF, in some cases, these materials would have previously been illegally removed from the phone of the head of the agency himself. and others allegedly given them to the media by his uncle, Juan Rubiales, the chief of staff, who is now under investigation for these events.