Rubiales spied with detectives on the head of Investigation of EL MUNDO to discover the source of the Supercopa Files

• Football The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor interrogates the uncle and former chief of staff of Luis Rubiales

A detective agency hired by

with the mission of finding out the origin of the

watched and followed the deputy director and head of Investigation of EL MUNDO,

, to try to get him to inadvertently lead them to the supposed source of the scandal, as published by

.

According to the newspaper, the private investigators also spied for almost two weeks on a former chief of staff of the president of the Federation and another employee of the entity.

During the espionage work, the detectives

of the deputy director of EL MUNDO at risk by chasing him for more than five kilometers through the streets of central Madrid while he was riding a motorcycle, as evidenced by the reports delivered by the detective agency to the

(RFEF).

The agency chosen by

, according to

, was

, a small office with little experience located in a chalet at number 23 Vía Romana street in Talamanca del Jarama, which offers its services on the internet for all kinds of jobs , from locating runaway minors to "employee observation", through counter-surveillance work and analysis of possible insurance fraud.

The service contract was signed by the administrator and sole employee of

, Javier Gutiérrez, although he turned to other security professionals to be able to carry out the

's assignment .

According to the reports of the detectives to which

has had access , an

car closely followed

's motorcycle for more than five kilometers so as not to lose his trail.

After almost 30 minutes of pursuit, detectives saw the journalist stop in front of a coffee shop and access the inside of it.

Investigators continued to record him inside.

They discovered that a woman they could not identify was waiting for him there.

However, they also related it to the

and photographed his face several times.

The images are included in the reports sent by the agency to the Federation.

After that scene, the detectives decided to stop monitoring the reporter for supposed "security reasons" and returned to focus all their attention on Rubiales' uncle.

The main objective of

was his own uncle,

, a journalist with a long professional career who in 2018 became his chief of staff and who, in the fall of 2020, after some disagreements, was removed from the position and moved to a sub-headquarters of the Federation in the center of Madrid.

The head of the National Team suspected that his family member was the person who had leaked

information about the

and asked the detectives to monitor him for nine days.

As published by

in EL MUNDO,

was questioned as a witness in the open investigations after the complaint filed by

, president of the National Training Center for Soccer Coaches.

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation into the alleged irregularities committed by

at the head of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF).

The investigation proceedings were initiated after the president of the National Training Center for Football Coaches (CENAFE),

, filed a complaint with Anticorruption following the information published by

about the negotiation between Rubiales and the Barcelona player,

, so that the Spanish Super Cup was played in Saudi Arabia.

The Federation agreed with

the mercantile Kosmos Global Holding SL, a commission of 24 million for taking the Spanish Super Cup to Arabia.

The company that brokered the contract secured the payment of four million a year for each of the first six editions of the tournament to be played in Riyadh.

The RFEF was guaranteed 40 million euros free of taxes per year, "a figure that triggered Rubiales' variable salary."

For its part, Piqué's company would charge Sela, the Saudi public company, another four million for each of the six years of the agreement, 24 million in total, as a 'success commission'.

In his complaint, Galán stressed that the Federation exercised, under the coordination and tutelage of

public functions of an administrative nature and that, therefore, after these facts revealed around the Super Cup, corruption crimes could be committed between individuals. , corruption in business, unfair administration, administrative prevarication and bribery.

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