Judge Santiago Pedraz , who instructs the so - called Operation Soule , has requested a battery of proceedings in relation to Antonio Suárez Santana , current vice president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) , before deciding whether to take a statement as charged, as He has been raised by the Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard .

The instructor, who has a UCO report on the table in which he accuses Suárez Santana of irregularly diverting federal funds , has demanded new documentation in relation to the subsidies requested by the current number two of Luis Rubiales from his position as president of the Canarian Federation .

These proceedings have been agreed with the approval of the Prosecutor's Office , which considers these new tests "indispensable" before "determining the condition under which" Suárez Santana should be heard in Soule's summary. In the aforementioned police report , unveiled by EL MUNDO last April, investigators attribute to Suárez Santana having been "knowledgeable" of the diversion of funds in favor of who was his right hand in the Canarian Federation while considering "plausible that he himself would have been the recipient of some benefit related " to the works carried out in artificial grass fields with the money allegedly distracted.

Among the irregularities denounced by the UCO, Judge Pedraz has claimed all the documentation related to the works carried out at the Heidelberg School of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. With respect to this operation, subsidized with public funds from the collection of 1% of the pools , the Civil Guard discovered the existence of "two budgets for such work with the annotations 'real budget' and 'budget for the Federation' with a difference between them of 44,592 euros . "

However, police investigations have also discovered that in parallel to the request for the federal subsidy for these works, the Canarian Federation collected and concealed a subsidy granted by the Heidelberg College itself .

This extreme has been denounced by the representation of La Liga, personified in the summary of Soule , who considers a deception to the RFEF carried out by its current number two and asks that it be imputed to declare on these facts. Hence, the judge has requested "the amount that, if applicable, would have been paid by any entity other than the Insular Federation of Las Palmas on the occasion of the work carried out in 2011 for the conditioning of his football field." In turn, he asks the RFEF and the Higher Sports Council (CSD) "to provide the hiring file in relation to the Heidelberg College, including the work project with the report and the corresponding budget."

At the same time, it asks the central Mercantile Registry for all the information related to the company Magein 2012, SL An entity that, in the opinion of the UCO, was created "on a premeditated basis" by the former vice president of the Las Palmas federation, Valentín Sáinz- Rozas , now deceased, and his son, to "benefit from artificial grass installation works" . The judge has agreed that the latter lend as an investigation an extension statement on these operations.

All these events date back six to eight years before Suarez entered the Rubiales board of directors, where he recently held the position of vice president after the resignation of Andreu Subies , which the UCO discovered by diverting funds from the RFEF to build a house and a restaurant for his wife worth "more than half a million euros". The RFEF has defended Suárez Santana so far after analyzing the UCO report and considers that, unlike what happened with Subies, there are no elements that justify its dismissal.

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