The La Cartuja stadium lifts the secret of the contract with Luis Rubiales two years later

On March 14, the Transparency and Data Protection Council of Andalusia sent a request to society La Cartuja Stadium in Seville SA. to demand that it be made public in fifteen days the contract he signed with the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) to celebrate the Euro 2020 in Seville. It was celebrated in 2021 due to the pandemic.

Las construction that were carried out to adapt the stadium are being investigated by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard within the ‘Super Cup case’ that a court in Majadahonda (Madrid) instructs and that focuses on Luis Rubiales’ closest environment. Is required the headquarters contract, the document that was signed for the stadium to host the Euro Cup matches. “An equal model,” they explain, “for the 11 venues that hosted soccer matches.”

That contract has remained secret to date. Was The Independent the means that required, via the Transparency Council, the agreement signed by the La Cartuja football federation and stadium, a public company, 40% owned by the Junta de Andalucía. Rubiales always refused to disclose that agreement and even went to court to not lift the secret. He claimed that it was “highly confidential.” Andalusian Government sources confirm that the documentation was sent to the Transparency Council “three days ago”, although it has not yet been released.

“Advice” from the RFEF

As part of the investigations, the Civil Guard went to request information, in a series of searches opened last Wednesday, at the La Cartuja stadium and the Seville City Council. Information was sought about the urgent works that were carried out in the spring of 2021 to house the Euro 2020, which was delayed a year due to Covid and fell to the capital of Seville after Bilbao’s resignation. The Gruconsa company had two awards worth 900.000 euros and one of its directors, Angel Gonzalez Segura, has just been released after giving a statement before the judge. He is the brother of the legal director of the RFEF, Pedro González Segurawho was also arrested last Wednesday.

The La Cartuja Stadium Society It was 15 days old, since last March 14, The deadline expired on March 29Good Friday, to disseminate the venue contract that was signed with the Royal Spanish Football Federation, according to the communication to which it has had access The Andalusian Post Office. That document has never been made public. Transparency already ordered it to be disseminated but Rubiales went to court to stop that requirement. Now, the federation has withdrawn from that judicial procedure, after Rubiales, who is attending the entire investigation in the Dominican Republic taking care of his business, resigned from his position last September shortly before being disqualified.

Once the courts have been left out, once again, the Transparency Council of Andalusia sent a requirement to the public company to make public the terms of the agreement he signed with the RFEF. The Junta de Andalucía has defended that it will collaborate as much as possible with justice, has guaranteed “maximum transparency” and has defended that the contracts that were signed were legal and the works were carried out.

Public subsidy

The Andalusian Government granted a subsidy of 4.9 million euros to the company that manages the Cartuja Stadium and that same day the board of directors of the stadium society decided to entrust the “technical advice” of all the works to the football federation for reasons of “hurry”. That document that entrusts the advice of the works to the RFEF it is not public. He was the manager of the stadium, Daniel F. Oviedowho was pointed out in said agreement as responsible for ensuring that the legal principles governing procurement with public money. The ordinary procedure was circumvented, explains the documentation to which he has had access The Andalusian Post Office, because “its execution would be impossible” due to the short deadlines that existed to carry out the works. The agreement was signed on May 5 and the first match of the Euro Cup was played on June 14, 2021.

In total, they were executed 28 works. Two of them900,000 euros, for Gruconsa, the construction company investigated and linked to Rubiales’ closest environment, with which the then president of the federation also went to do business in China.

The Estadio de La Cartuja society is integrated into the 40% by the Junta de Andalucía, 25% Government, 19% City Council, 13% Provincial Council and 3% the city clubs (Real Betis and Sevilla FC).

The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) went to court so that the terms of the venue contract that it signed in 2021 with the public company that manages the La Cartuja stadium in Seville for the dispute of several matches of the last Euro Cup (2020) were not known, which required that the Junta de Andalucía granted an exceptional subsidy of 4.9 million. Transparency always denied that there was “a real, current and concrete risk for economic and commercial interests”, as the RFEF defended.

2024-03-22 13:16:09
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