Luis Rubiales, already plagued by widespread criticism after forcibly kissing Jenni Hermoso after the Women’s World Cup final between Spain and England, is under investigation by a suburban court from Madrid for a trip to New York paid for by the Spanish federation.
The noose is tightening for Luis Rubiales. The president of the Spanish federation, already strongly criticized for forcibly kissing Jenni Hermoso during the World Cup final, is in the sights of Spanish justice for a trip to New York financed by the RFEF. According to information fromThe confidentialLuis Rubiales would have simulated meetings to spend six days in the United States with a Mexican painter.
An open investigation
Majadahonda court judge (in the Madrid suburbs) Delia Rodrigo, who is already investigating the alleged irregularities committed by Luis Rubiales at the head of the Spanish federation concerning the Spanish Supercup affair, has reportedly asked for information on the trip that the Spanish football leader made to New York with RFEF funds a few months after being elected to the post.
According to El Confidencial, Luis Rubiales would have simulated meetings with the United Nations and the MLS to spend six days in the United States, where he was accompanied by a Mexican painter. The stay would have been financed by the budget of the Spanish federation. The judge therefore requested information about this trip, at the request of the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office, which has been investigating Rubiales’ activities for more than a year.
A tourist trip paid for by the federation
The Spanish federation has however told the Spanish media that it was indeed a business trip, listing a series of professional meetings planned in New York. But the statement by assembly member Román Ignacio Rodríguez Fernández referred to dates that did not coincide with Luis Rubiales’ trip to New York. El Confidencial therefore deduces that the president of the RFEF was in the American city for tourism, in the company of the Mexican painter.
Facts that could constitute an offense of unfair administration, punishable by up to three years in prison. Luis Rubiales’ various expenses on the spot – the cost of flights, hotel and a rental car – were passed on to the federation’s budget, claiming that they were expenses related to the exercise of his function. El Confidencial even had access to messages that he sent to his relatives in order to present his fake program there and tell them what they had to answer if someone asked them about his stay in New York. None of the listed meetings would have taken place.
Almost a business meeting
Once there, however, he would have been contacted by the leaders of Relevent, a company specializing in the organization of sporting events in New York, who asked him for an appointment. The two parties would have even agreed for an appointment in a restaurant in Manhattan, but this one would have been canceled a few minutes before by Luis Rubiales. The Spanish leader would have been wary of the American company already working with La Liga, a body led by Javier Tebas, with whom he is in conflict.
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