The president of the Madrid Tennis Federation, investigated for self-contracting for 10,530 euros per month

The prosecutor in the case maintains that the diversion of funds would amount to 568,520 euros

MADRID, 20 May. 2022 (Europa Press) –

The Madrid Investigating Judge number 43 investigates the president of the Madrid Tennis Federation (FTM), Juan Luis Rascón Lope, for allegedly hiring himself for a salary of 10,530 euros per month following a complaint from the Economic Crimes Section of the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Madrid promoted by four federates, legal sources have confirmed to Europa Press.

In the complaint, to which Europa Press had access and advanced by ‘El Periódico de España’, the prosecutor underlines that the diversion of funds through this channel up to the date of the complaint would amount to 568,520 euros.

Rascón Lope and the manager of the federation, Juan Bautista Avendaño, were summoned to testify as investigated last December, but the hearing was suspended pending the Provincial Court of Madrid ruling on the appearance of the complainants in the case, according to have detailed the cited sources.

In the complaint, the prosecutor stated that the only reported facts that could constitute a crime and therefore deserve to be reported are those related to Juan Luis Rascón Lope self-hiring as an employee of the FTM, “assigning himself a salary of 10,530 euros per month from November 6, 2016, date of registration with Social Security after his appointment as president of the FTM”.

The complaint from the Prosecutor’s Office maintains that the existence of this employment relationship “is not authorized from the regulatory point of view, and implies the enjoyment of a series of labor benefits”, for which it concludes that self-contracting from November 2016 to March 2021 could constitute an abusive exercise of its functions.

The federates who took the case to the Prosecutor’s Office stated that the facts could constitute crimes of administrative prevarication, embezzlement of public funds, crime of bribery, crime of unfair administration, crime of misappropriation and crimes against the Public Treasury and document falsity. .