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Gerard Piqué

announced this Thursday his withdrawal in full judicial investigation for the collection of millionaire commissions through his company Kosmos for having mediated in the transfer of the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia.

The decision of the Barça center-back took place a few days after the judge investigating the management of

Luis Rubiales

at the head of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has required all the banking information of the footballer's business conglomerate while at the same time issuing a rogatory commission to Andorra to determine if it has diverted funds to the Principality club, which it owns.

Piqué has defended the legality of the collection of more than 20 million for his intermediation for the transfer of the tournament and, as revealed by EL MUNDO, he has already delivered invoices worth 8 million to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, an amount that has already been collected from the Saudi authorities.

In parallel, he maintains that his company has carried out advisory work that justifies these fees and that the operations are completely transparent.

However, the Public Ministry has been investigating the operation and Piqué's involvement since last May, after the publication in El Confidencial, of the contract with his commissions as well as audios in which he discussed the amounts to be collected with Rubiales.

The highest paid centre-back in the world

Piqué's goodbye also coincides with the recent publication by EL MUNDO of the club's secret files.

In a serial under the title of 'Barçaleaks', this newspaper revealed that the club's own control bodies came to denounce that the player's business was causing "very serious damage" to the club, constituted a clear breach of contract and proposed a severe economic sanction.

Likewise, this newspaper revealed the contract that made him the best paid center-back in the world and the persecution that FC Barcelona carried out on the player due to his refusal to pay for the private box he enjoyed at the Camp Nou.

The same behavior was carried out by Jordi Alba, who together with Piqué finally ended up agreeing to pay the amounts they owed.

Internal emails from the club disapproved of the attitude of both players and denounced that players with such high salaries who at the same time were delinquent was "the world upside down."

Piqué even forced the club to invest in a video game business and produced, without authorization from the entity, a documentary in which

Antoine Griezmann explained

why he had rejected the first offer from Barça and had decided to stay at Atlético de Madrid.

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