Luis Rubiales pointed out to the Government of Pedro Sanchez and to FC Barcelona for the Negreira case before his fall as president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF): “It could have legal consequences.”
Rubiales was disqualified and forced to resign last September for kissing the Spanish national team player. Jennifer Hermoso for which he has been prosecuted in the National Court. For his part, the Investigative Court No. 4 of Majadahonda (Madrid) is investigating him within the framework of ‘operation Brody’ for allegedly collecting bribes from RFEF contracts during his term as president.
A confidential 24-page report carried out on March 10, 2023 by the RFEF Integrity Directorate, to which you have had access Digital Freedompoints out that “it is obligatory to reproach the behavior of the Club in relation to the facts analyzed here from a perspective of integrity. It is obvious that, for a sports club like Fútbol Club Barcelona (FCB), it becomes completely contrary to the most basic rules of sporting integrity to maintain contractual relationships with people linked to the federative entity that organizes different official state competitions in which it participates”.
“As this entity has recognized to the integrity department, the technical evaluation of referees for the first and second teams of the FCB, despite the fact that, in its case, it may be, as the Club affirms, a common practice in all professional football clubs, “It can never be developed by personnel who hold positions in the federation board, in general, and, where appropriate, in the CTA board, in particular.”Add.
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Next, the RFEF report harshly attacks the former Barça manager and former Sports Director of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), Albert Soler: “It should be noted that one of the directors of the FCB at the time of the events analyzed here, specifically, Albert Soler Sicilia, was subsequently appointed general director of sports of the Higher Sports Council. In this sense, Mr. Soler’s passive actions In relation to the facts analyzed here, they are of special gravity, especially when he held a high position within the General Administration of the State, however, despite exercising public responsibilities of the highest level in sport within the Government of Spain, did not make any complaint nor did he inform the competent authorities of the facts of repeated mention.”
“From the perspective of criminal law, it is possible to elucidate, where appropriate, legal responsibilities against Messrs. Enriquez Negreira and Enríquez Romero and the FCB. The Club’s behavior is completely reprehensible from an ethical and integrity perspective. And this is without prejudice to the fact that, where appropriate, after the appropriate judicial actions, you may incur some type of additional legal responsibility; issue that, as has already been anticipated, exceeds the scope of competencies and powers that the applicable legal framework attributes to the RFEF,” he emphasizes.
“Consequences” of FIFA and UEFA
The RFEF report concludes that “the maintenance of contractual relations by the FCB with a director of the CTA, without prejudice, where appropriate, to the possible legal consequences declared by the corresponding judicial bodies, becomes contrary to the rules of integrity and , if applicable, more basic ethics and must be the subject of the most energetic public warning and rebuke. Warning and reproaches extendable to Mr. Soler Sicilia who, having been a director of the FCB at the time of the events and, subsequently, having held a high position in the General Administration of the State in sports matters, failed to make any type of complaint about the events to the competent bodies”.
“From a legal perspective, the actions of the FCB are prescribed in light of the meaning of the state sports legislation and the national disciplinary federation regulations. However, both From the perspective of Spanish criminal law, such as “the applicable international federative regulations of FIFA and UEFA, where applicable, the actions of the FCB analyzed could have legal consequences for the entity.”since the limitation periods are different from those provided for in Spanish sports regulations,” he concludes.
2024-04-14 18:54:42
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