Ángel González Segura, brother of the current legal director of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Pedro González Segura was a director of the construction company Gruconsa when it remodeled the La Cartuja stadium in 2020 and also ahead of the 2021 Euro Cup. Within the framework of the Super Cup case, the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard This Wednesday morning, arrests and searches were carried out in various parts of Spain related to the RFEF to try to obtain more information about the remodeling contracts for the Andalusian stadium.
The González Segura brothers, as confirmed by El Periódico de España, from the Prensa Ibérica group, are among the seven arrested for that operation. In the case of Ángel, who identifies himself in his Linkedin profile as responsible for Gruconsa For the southern zone since 2019, this is a businessman who has previously played for Granada CF and Watford FC, two clubs that are part of the same group whose former leaders were prosecuted in Spain for a crime against the public treasury.
In this sense, and as this newspaper has been able to verify through the company’s website, Gruconsa also carried out projects in the past for Granada CF, a club for which it remodeled the sports city, the stadium and the offices, and Watford FC, for which he made renovations to the stands and the training field.
Remodeling of La Cartuja
In June 2021, the San Mamés stadium was no longer one of the confirmed venues for the Euro Cup that was going to be held that summer. The UEFA and the RFEF chaired at the time by Luis Rubiales, who is currently traveling in the Dominican Republic and is one of the defendants in the Super Cup case, they urgently designated in its place La Cartuja, a stadium that the federation had been remodeling for several years.
One of the companies chosen to carry out the express rehabilitation of the facility was Gruconsa, as recognized by the company itself on its website and on its social networks. The conditioning work, according to what is stated in the construction company’s portfolio, could include common areas such as the changing rooms, the access tunnel to the field, the press room and the areas surrounding the playing field.
In addition, and as the company explained on its social networks, Gruconsa would also have participated in more renovations “getting ready the La Cartuja stadium in Seville. With a capacity of 60,000 spectators, it will host the next Copa del Rey final as well as future matches of the national team”. The publication is from November 2020, months before the Euro Cup. This newspaper has tried to contact Gruconsa, without success.
Under the direction of Court of First Instance and Instruction number 4 of Majadahonda (Madrid), framed in the Preliminary Proceedings 338/22 of the case known as Files Super Cupand in coordination with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, the Civil Guard with the support of Europol Yesterday it carried out various actions in different provinces of the Spanish geography, among them in Madrid, Granada and Seville.
Among the seven detainees, As investigation sources confirm to this newspaper, it is Tomás González Cueto, external legal advisor to the Federation, considered one of the ‘brains of Rubialism’ and who continued working for this organization. In fact, last week he acted as a federation lawyer in the Super League trial. The current legal director of the Federation, Pedro González Segura; to the latter’s brother, Ángel González Segura; and the person responsible for Personnel, Jose Javier Jimenez.
In sevilla, The UCO went to La Cartuja to demand various documentation regarding an agreement of three million euros in favor of the Football Federation, as reported by ‘El Correo de Andalucía’, from the same editorial group as El Periódico de España.
This newspaper has been able to confirm from sources from the Royal Spanish Football Federation that one of the issues that the UCO asked the RFEF directors about yesterday are the contracts related to the works in La Cartuja for the 2021 Euro Cup.
2024-03-21 06:31:21
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