The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), headed by Luis Rubiales, which was temporarily suspended by FIFA, made a maneuver to disable the defendant’s bench as a so-called legal entity. ‘Haiti case’ alleging guilt grant fraud It is foreseen that a lawsuit has been filed for this. This is stated in the accounts of the Federation to which EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA from the Prensa Ibérica group has access.
Case dropped Criminal Court No. 30 of Madrid, Its owner is Hortensia de Oro-Pulido, and the Federation, headed by Rubiales, must decide whether to accept his request.
“RFEF claims specified actions timed out action completed on 30 November 2011 and the complaint that led to the lawsuit was filed on 30 December 2016“The body that determines the fate of Spanish football has filed an appeal stating that it cannot be prosecuted for subsidy fraud because “more than five years”, the period of time the offense is considered time-barred, has elapsed.
I returned the money
However, the Federation acknowledged that it was not the target for which public aid was given. In this sense, the RFEF explains that in its official accounts, after being accused as a legal person, it has launched an internal investigation that allows for the repayment of unfulfilled benefits “before the start of the judicial process”: The repayment in question totaled 1,560,931 euros, including the principal plus accrued interest. amount is included in the reimbursement. We argue that this “arrangement requires the damage to be repaired and thus constitutes an exemption from criminal action”.“.
The so-called ‘Haiti case’, the only case in which RFEF has been prosecuted as a legal entity, started after a complaint from the head of the National Coaches Training Center (Cenafe). Miguel Ángel Galán Castellanos, against the Federation and its then President, Angel Maria Villarand other managers. In particular, he attributed embezzlement, fraud and embezzlement of public funds in relation to the grant of 219,500 euros, the purpose of which was to establish a public fund. football school in Haiti.
The investigation conducted by the President of the Investigation Court No. 4 in Majadahonda (Madrid) confirmed that: these funds did not go to the Caribbean country. It also extended its instructor research to four different subsidized programmes, providing an additional €1,222,500, which was also awarded to the RFEF.
three defendants
Alongside the federation, the Majadahonda judge agreed to prosecute the organization’s former secretary-general. Jorge Perez Arias; to the old manager Jose Maria Castillon Casasnovas; and Isabel Navas Portillo, former director of the RFEF Foundation. The order, available to this newsroom, dated 28 November 2022, states that it accuses them of “not carrying out the project for which the subsidy was granted, failing to comply with the conditions under which the aid was stipulated”.
On the contrary, the judge dismissed the charges against Villar and the Federation for the other crimes they were charged with. The prosecution had already demanded that RFEF be sentenced to 700 thousand euros in damages.According to the Iusport website.