In what was going to be his big week, Pedro Rochasole candidate to be appointed new president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, He has been charged in the case that investigates the alleged irregularities committed within the RFEF and that occurred, supposedly, both during the mandate of Luis Rubiales and himself as successor and interim president.
As a result of her evasive statements aimed at discharging her responsibility for what happened, the judge has agreed to change her procedural situation in the case from witness to investigated after Rocha assured that I didn’t know things that I “should have known”according to legal sources explained to El Periódico de España, from the same publishing group.
“Academic degree?” “Life”
Technical things, like the way They negotiated the contracts that led to the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabiabut also personal, such as why Rubiales names him as his successor: “I don’t know, ask him.”
Later, and upon insistence during the interrogation, he stated that he believed it could be because he considered himself a “football man”, “honest” and “transparent” who accepted the position “to lend a hand.” And what academic qualifications do you have? the prosecutor asked him. “Life,” Rocha responded according to sources consulted by this newspaper.
The interrogation
Although both at the entrance and exit of the Investigative Court Number 4 of Majadahonda, Madrid, Rocha said he was “with a very clear conscience,” the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office It didn’t take him even half an hour to get tired of the lack of specificity of the answers. of a person very close to power throughout Rubiales’ time in the RFEF.
And, for example, Rocha went so far as to assure that he was a “representative” vice president, “non-executive,” meaning that he had nothing to do with the Federation’s accounts. The prosecutor, who did not seem to believe itI asked him in what document that was specified, but Rocha limited himself to saying that it was part of the “political” sphere of the RFEF, not the executive.
After almost three years of judicial investigation in which the Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guardthe UCO, has been breaking down large amounts of information about the alleged irregularities, Pedro Rocha, one of the most powerful people within the organization, tried to appear oblivious to everything, as explained to El Periódico de España.
What did you know about the contract that brought the Spanish Soccer Super Cup to Saudi Arabia? Nothing, not even if there were previous reports, nor was he even aware that it had been extended, since he has not seen “any document, neither before nor now” nor had he spoken about it with Rubiales. And about the commissions? Gerard Piqué? She found out from the press.
Nor did I have any idea if there had been a report from the RFEF Ethics Commission, about the conditions under which the works in La Cartuja were carried out by Gruconsa, a construction company allegedly related to the Rubiales orbit, or why Tomás González Cueto, strong man of ‘rubialismo’ and external legal advisor to the Federation, had been hired: “President’s decision”.
The construction company is not chosen by him
Virtually the entire last phase of the investigation of the case focuses on the awarding of works to Gruconsa, a company in which Ángel González Segura was a director, brother of the person responsible for the Legal Services of the RFEF until his arrest on December 20. March. Supposedly, or so the Civil Guard believes at least proven, the awarding of reforms worth more than 3.8 million euros was produced in exchange for a return of half a million to a company managed by Nene, partner and childhood friend of Rubiales.
Rocha, who was appointed economic vice president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation in 2020, has assured the judge that once these revelations by the UCO come to light decided to stop all contracts with Gruconsasince there was one pending from this same year that had a report from the director of Infrastructure Personnel.
2024-04-12 14:15:12
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