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Updated Wednesday, April 3, 2024-23:32

''Everything is a lie''. That was the line of argument maintained by

Luis Rubiales

in the interview conducted by

Ana Pastor

in the program

El Objective

of La Sexta broadcast on Wednesday night, the same day that the former president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) decided advance his trip from the Dominican Republic to make himself available to Judge

Delia Rodrigo

, who is instructing

Operation Brody

, in which the former manager is being investigated for business corruption, disloyal administration, money laundering and membership in a criminal organization.

The interview was recorded in Punta Cana before Rubiales announced his return to Madrid. The former head of the RFEF assured that he has returned to Spain because he has nothing to hide and that he went to the Dominican Republic because in Spain they had closed the doors for him to start a new life after being removed from the presidency of the RFEF. Federation. He said that four months ago

he understood that they did not want him in Spain

and that his usual bank warned him that they did not want to continue operating with him. Then, he contacted his friend

De el Nene

de el to start business together in the Caribbean. ''I talk to

Nene

, I tell him what is happening to me and he tells me that he is going to start doing business in the Dominican Republic. "This is a country with opportunities," he acknowledged.

Rubiales assured in the program that he feels persecuted, the victim of an unwanted situation: ''It seems like

they don't want to let me earn a living either in football or in anything

... In the world of football they don't want to leave me out either. I have suffered such a great media beating that it was impossible to work. Not only in Spain, also in Asia."

The dialogue between Rubiales and Ana Pastor was fluid, punctuated with several reproaches from the former manager for the interruptions of the journalist, who asked him about what he lives on now after leaving the RFEF and what his income is. ''I have been president of a union, of the RFEF, and all the money I have in my accounts is the product of my work. Now he was starting to try to do business here and elsewhere. For example, I signed a contract with a Korean company for $1.8 million over three years for NFTs [crypto assets]. When the first NFT came out they told us that

they had received a lot of pressure from Spain

and canceled the contract. It's being very difficult for me. Until now I have had no income but I have had the opportunity to meet people and make an honest living... I have never had a bite in my life,'' the former footballer responds.

In his speech in La Sexta, Rubiales took the opportunity to assure that he has no relationship with the construction company Gruconsa, which appears in the summary of the investigation initiated in the Majadahonda court: ''I have nothing to do with it.

I have not worked with that construction company

, it has worked for the RFEF, it has done a job and it has passed some filters... What I ask is that if it is being investigated, there is a presumption of innocence, but it seems that in Spain there is no presumption of innocence. certain people. In any media issue that I have been involved in recently, there is no presumption of innocence.... If those filters have been passed, what is the problem? "I'm going to clarify everything."

BASEBALL TEAM

Rubiales stressed that in recent months a smear campaign has been created against him. ''I am here today to say that it is a lie that I have gotten a bite, that I have a baseball team. It is a lie that I hit a

ball in Cape Verde

, it is a lie that I have land for hotel construction in Saudi Arabia. I don't know what the judge says or the UCO investigates. The money I have in my accounts is the product of my work and my savings,' he lamented.

He also insisted on how complicated it is for him to start a new journey: ''

Nene

and I were trying to do business here, but it's impossible.

I don't even have the possibility of paying for a Coca-Cola

, because my accounts are blocked... Doing business with any of us is very complicated, because people stay away, they don't want problems at the media level.''

Last Monday, the Civil Guard searched Rubiales' residence in Punta Cana and seized his cell phone and a tablet. "They took my phones, but obviously I made a dump of them," he admitted.

Rubiales did not hide his good relations with Saudi Arabia and assured that he would not mind having business in that country, but that it is difficult for him: ''I wish I had because I have a family that has to get ahead.

I am moving with all the contacts

I have because I am a free person and I have the right to earn a living. I want to use my contacts, until now they have made it very difficult for me.''

Ana Pastor also asked him if he maintains a relationship with

Pedro Rocha

, president of the Management Board of the Spanish Federation, and how long it has been since he has spoken to him: ''I think I spoke only once on the phone. I don't remember, but since they took the phone it will be there, three months, five... I don't have any relationship. I have completely distanced myself from the Federation. When I stopped being president I have not called any president of the Territorials. Someone generally to encourage, see family... When I have been asked about other issues I have given my opinion but as time has passed I have not wanted to know anything about elections. I'm out''.

One of the issues that affected Rubiales were the alleged recordings of members of the Government and the Salobreña party, in both issues he appeared on behalf of his

uncle Juan

, whom he also referred to in the interview: ''I have dealt with this person to make a division because he has been in the most difficult moment of my life with me, we have loved each other very much, and then he decided something else.

I never kicked him out of the RFEF, he left the chief of staff

but I'll stick with that first part.''

Did your uncle invent the party thing? Ana Pastor asked. ''If there is a doctor who can assure us that by giving us truth serum... if you ask me

if I have ever been with a prostitute

, I am going to answer no, it is the truth. No one will be able to verify it because I have never been. The intimate relationships I have had are intimate and within the freedom of two adults. "It's embarrassing for me to have to explain something I've never done."

JENNI BEAUTIFUL

Regarding the scandal with the consensual kiss with

Jenni Hermoso

, a matter for which the Prosecutor's Office requests two and a half years in prison, he once again insisted on the absence of a crime: ''Whoever sees the images cannot understand that this is an assault sexual. It is an event that occurs between two friends, Mrs. Hermoso has said that there was trust, but the moment there is pressure everything changes. I haven't changed my mind. It is false that there has been coercion and no one will be able to prove otherwise.''

He also acknowledged that he did maintain contacts with

Koldo García

, but without controversial issues: ''He asked us for tickets like practically all the politicians from all the national parties that are not pro-independence, with the exception of VOX, which has never asked us for tickets... He contacted with me because I was a friend of

Aldama

, the president of Zamora, and they asked me why Zamora didn't go up. "Explanations were given."

Rubiales also referred to the

Negreira case

, a matter of which he said that the final consequences would have to be reached: ''I am glad that as soon as I arrived, the entire leadership that directed the arbitration establishment was terminated en bloc,'' he stated.