• Operation Soule. One year later

The Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard concludes that the former vice president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Andreu Subies, diverted exactly 1.1 million euros from the agency to build a house and a restaurant for his woman in the Catalan town of Cambrils. This figure doubles that initially reported by the researchers of the 'Operation Soule', which was revealed exclusively by EL MUNDO and led to his resignation as number two of Luis Rubiales last March.

Subies was arrested for these events in November 2018 but Rubiales kept him in his post after stressing that he trusted his innocence. The first conclusions of the UCO came months later, accused the manager of "abusing the heritage" of the RFEF to get private works "free of charge" and detonated his departure. In his place Antonio Suárez Santana was appointed, which the Civil Guard itself also implies in the diversion of federal funds and its possible citation as a defendant is currently being analyzed by the Prosecutor of the National Court.

In the case of Suárez Santana, he supposedly benefited his right hand in the Canarian Federation by building artificial grass fields with inflated amounts. However, the Judicial Police consider it "plausible" that he himself would benefit after finding annotations with his first name in lists of distribution of illegal commissions.

"There are no bank or tax data indicating that Subies or his family environment paid for Cambrils reforms," ​​argues the Judicial Police in a new report that has just been presented at the National Court and to which this newspaper has had access.

"Cash"

"In none of the records practiced or through other proceedings have obtained documents of any kind accrediting or even alluding to the fact that the cost of the works was borne by those who occupied a debtor position," he adds. "Nor are others through which the payment obligation is required, its compliance is compromised or in any way there is a willingness to assume it."

In short, "Subies does not offer any details of the payment of the works," continues the UCO, which maintains that it was carried out by a contractor of the Catalan Federation, José Contreras. "Considering that it is a debt exceeding one million euros that directly concerns its family economy, it is surprising that it answered the questions of the Fiscal Ministry with total indeterminacy."

Also, remember that Contreras, "said he was being paid gradually with cash." However, he questions his version: "If so, it makes no sense that he did not keep accounts of these hypothetical payments, a situation that objectively would prevent him from knowing how much he was owed."

"Four works"

The UCO also accuses Subies and the contractor of having made "a document of payment commitment and debt recognition" in full investigation. A test that, in the opinion of the investigators, warned "when more than four years had elapsed since the beginning of the works and two since the end of these."

The consideration that the builder received from Subies was, according to the UCO, the award of at least "four works" by the Catalan Football Federation: the delegations of Tarragona, Villafranca del Penedés and Sabadell and the place of arbitrators of Headquarters. Which "would be enough to compensate for the expenses of the two works of Cambrils."

These facts are prior to the arrival of Rubiales to the presidency of the RFEF, who after analyzing the first report of the Civil Guard and having a private conversation with Subies, urged him to leave his post.

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