The former president of the Extremadura Athletics Federation was arrested for buying jewelry and appliances with funds from the organization

The Civil Guard has arrested the former president of the Extremadura Athletics Federation for 26 years,

, as the alleged perpetrator of the crimes of misappropriation, fraud and unfair administration of the entity's funds.

Together with his former secretary general,

, and a competition judge,

, the Judicial Police Organic Unit (UOPJ) of the Cáceres Command, accuses him of diverting 300,000 euros from a credit card of said federation for your personal benefit.

The one baptized as 'Operation 'Fondista' began last March as a result of a complaint filed by a citizen who provided information on these alleged irregularities committed between the years between 2014 and 2020.

During the investigation, the agents verified "the close and extensive relationship" between the bank accounts of the Extremadura Athletics Federation and that of the managers involved.

With due judicial authorization, the Civil Guard registered one of the addresses of the detainees, carried out on April 25 in Cáceres.

As a result, the agents seized jewelry or household appliances, allegedly acquired through the fraudulent use of a Federation credit card.

Refueling

In addition, numerous documents proving the use of said card were intervened, "which revealed how it had been used to pay for refueling the private vehicles of one of those investigated, repair these same vehicles or make private purchases in supermarkets" , according to research.

In addition, the agents have verified that money was diverted to personal accounts, an amount that the Federation contributed for the payment of the competition judges.

Even two of those investigated would have come to pay with money from the Federation a fine to which they had been sentenced by a sentence in another judicial process, in addition to the fees of the lawyers who had defended them.

In total, the Civil Guard estimates the amount that would have been managed irregularly at around 300,000 euros.

The case is followed in the Court of First Instance and Instruction No. 4 of Cáceres.

Background

Two of the three detainees already have criminal records.

Specifically, two years ago, the Criminal Court number 2 of Cáceres sentenced Francisco Carrapiso and Pedro Talavera to one year in prison, as perpetrators of the crime of false documents.

In addition, they were specially disqualified from exercising the right to passive suffrage during the time of their sentence.

In the aforementioned judicial proceeding, it was proven that Carrapiso and Talavera, "by mutual agreement, with the intention of misleading its authenticity and with the intention of using it for legal purposes, drew up and signed an act of the Ordinary General Assembly dated the 15th of July 2015”.

In that same document, the sentence collects, a date of celebration, some attendees and some "non-existent" agreements were recorded, since this federative meeting never took place.

It was the General Directorate of Sports of the Junta de Extremadura who forwarded to the Prosecutor's Office a sanctioning file against Carrapiso for alleged false documents after requesting copies of the minutes of the assemblies from the Extremaduran federation.

In addition, both Carrapiso and Talavera, in addition to a federative member, were already sanctioned in March 2019 by the Extremeño Committee for Sports Discipline to three years of deprivation of their rights to hold management positions as authors of a "serious offense" after breaching agreements and resolutions of the same body dependent on the Junta de Extremadura.

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