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The president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and the executives who stayed in a chalet in the Granada town of Salobreña have informed the judge of the reimbursement of the expenses derived from that controversial stay.

L

uis Rubiales and at least seven executives have submitted a brief before the Investigating Court number 4 of Majadahonda

through which they ensure that the vast majority of attendees have proceeded to refund the amount of the rental of the chalet on which they insist, despite the reimbursement, which housed a few days of work.

It should be remembered, as EL MUNDO exclusively revealed, that the uncle and former chief of staff of the president of Spanish football,

Juan Rubiales

, denounced on May 30 before the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office that under the pretext of professional conferences,

the appointment de Salobreña actually hosted a "party with a group of 8 or 10 young girls" and that all the expenses were borne by the federal coffers

.

For this reason, the Public Ministry required through the court the exhaustive justification of all the operations related to the stay in Granada, which took place in August 2020, in case a crime of unfair administration or misappropriation could have been committed.

During the last days and given the delay of the RFEF in answering, the judge reiterated the requirement.

The leadership of the RFEF has provided proof of transfers and payments made through Bizum, except in the case of a couple of senior federative officials who argue before the magistrate investigating this episode that they proceeded to reimbursement in cash and that they lack supporting documents.

In any case, and as this newspaper has learned through sources close to the procedure,

Rubiales' team claims to have reimbursed a total of 3,000 euros

.

Amount to which, they say, the rental of the villa with pool and views of the Granada coast amounted.

Among those responsible who have documented the return in court is Luis Rubiales himself.

According to the attendees, they handed over the money on different dates to the senior officer who was in charge of paying the rent for the chalet and who they identify as

the person in charge of the Legal Department, Pedro González Segura, who was also in Salobreña.

In the version provided before the Investigating Court number 4 of Majadahonda, the RFEF specifies that despite the fact that this senior official was in charge of the payment, he never charged the amount to the RFEF and paid it through his private accounts. .

Meals with the Andalusian Federation

The only thing that

the RFEF admits is the payment of several lunches and dinners coinciding with that stay in Salobreña

which was attended, they emphasize, by directors of the Andalusian Football Federation.

In the case of these last payments, the funds have not been refunded since it was specified that they were exclusively work meetings.

The entity that Rubiales directs came out immediately after learning the content of the statement of the former chief of staff on Anticorruption and defended that the days of Salobreña were for work and did not host any party.

In this sense,

the RFEF specified that they were "planning" meetings and now in its letter it adds that "the new design of the competitions" was addressed after the pandemic

.

However, the president has modulated his version of what happened over time and in a recent interview with the newspaper

'El País'

he admitted for the first time that, in addition to working, they celebrated "a paella with friends" in the chalet. .

The RFEF has already announced that despite the fact that the meeting was officially for work,

the managers were going to reimburse the money for having chosen a chalet by the sea as the location.

"They do it that way because they are very scrupulous," a federation spokesman came to emphasize when advancing the refund.

It was solely for the enjoyment of Luis Rubiales and his most direct team, paying the expenses with company cards from the RFEF

Juan Rubiales

Be that as it may, the federative version collides head-on with that of Juan Rubiales, who was his nephew's right-hand man in the RFEF between 2018 and 2020, who attended the Salobreña meeting, and who assured the Anti-Corruption prosecutor that his relationship with his then the boss "deteriorated" precisely after the celebration of the "party" in the aforementioned chalet.

"Supposedly it was a few days of work," he said, "but it was not

. "

"It was solely for the enjoyment of Luis Rubiales and his team, more directly from him, paying the expenses with company cards from the RFEF."

Juan Rubiales added that "a group of 8 or 10 young girls was invited to the party by former soccer player

Nene

(who played among other teams for Granada and who maintains a close friendship with Rubiales).

'

El País

' went so far as to publish, citing sources close to the Salobreña event, that young girls "captured in nightclubs" attended but whom he had not forced to have sexual relations with the attendees.

Among the executives who attended were, in addition, the general deputy secretary,

Miguel García Caba

, the coordinator of the Cabinet of the Presidency,

José María Timón

, or the director of Institutional Relations,

Antonio Gómez Reino

.

Juan Rubiales also detailed in his appearance that his nephew asked him on August 18, 2020 that

"he had to find a formula for money to reach his father" through the RFEF

.

According to Juan Rubiales, he refused to irregularly divert federal funds to his brother and the president told him to "leave" and that he "did not want to see him again."

Later he was fired and the dispute between the two is being aired right now both in the labor and criminal proceedings.

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