The plot of Rubiales case adds a new codename to its alleged “criminal organization“: Israel Dorado, who until the arrests on March 20 was only known to be part of the case, would have been, according to the Civil Guardthe ‘straw man’ in charge of transporting the fraudulently obtained black money to the Dominican Republic and to appear as administrator of businesses that actually belonged to Luis Rubiales and his partner and friend Nene.
According to the summary of the case to which El Periódico de España, from the Prensa Ibérica group, has had access, from February 2021 to the present, Dorado, who was arrested on March 25 at the Barajas airport for alleged crimes of money laundering and membership in a criminal organization, would have been “frequently traveling” to the Caribbean country “accompanied by Javier Martín Alcaide”, alias Nene, and as a “front man”. He was carrying 1,080 euros in cash and a mobile phone at the time of his arrest, all of which was seized by the Civil Guard.
The investigation believes that Nene would be the key partner of Luis Rubiales both to carry out businesses with which to obtain money from the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) in the remodeling works of the La Cartuja stadium as well as for potential investments in Punta Cana.
During these trips, they explain the conclusions of the report of the Central Operational Unit (UCO), “certain operations are observed from which it is clear that [Dorado] would be transporting Javier’s cash [Martín Alcaide] to the Caribbean country“with the aim of “making investments in that country, thus evading the control of the Spanish authorities.”
Rubiales and Nene’s hidden business
Furthermore, the document consulted by this newspaper continues, during “that period Dorado would also be getting a business degree hospitality and catering de facto administered and financed by Martín Alcaideboth in Spain and in the Dominican Republic, thus hiding the true ownership of those businesses.
Some businesses in which, presumably, he would also be the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation entering as a partner (RFEF), after his resignation from the federation.” In this sense, the UCO recalls that “previously, during Luis Rubiales’ mandate as head of the Federation, Javier, through Dismatec [una de las sociedades clave del caso]would have obtained apparently unjustified benefits from the construction company Gruconsa as alleged consideration for the contracting of construction projects of the RFEF and linked to it.”
“In my 50% I will say who enters, […]”I have to put Luis in.”
To justify this conclusion, the Civil Guard investigators give as an example the extract of one of the intercepted calls to Nene, in which he assures, with respect to the investments that would have been forged there with these funds that “in my 50% I will say who entersbecause I have Luis, for example, to the taken I have it with me and it is living there, I have to put it in“.
From the Investigative Court number 4 of Majadahonda, Madrid, Judge Delia Rodrigo investigates the various people investigated and accused in the plot, including Luis Rubiales, Nene and Israel Dorado, for alleged crimes of influence peddling, business corruption, unfair administration and criminal organization, among others.
The route that leads to the Dominican Republic
Israel Dorado, according to the documentation contained in the summary to which El Periódico de España has had access, would have begun his relationship with the alleged plot in February 2021, just when those trips to the Dominican Republic would have begun in which, for True, Nene and Purificación Rufino, his wife, also appear.
For example, in February 2021, just a few months before the express remodeling works of La Cartuja to prepare the stadium for the Euro Cup, Dorado, Nene and Rufino boarded a plane to Miami and with their final destination Punta Cana. For that journey, Dorado presented a declaration of cash departure from Spain of 40,000 euros coming from Explotaciones Hotelera Nazaríes, Nene’s parent company, but it is he who carries it out. The three of them sat together on that flight.
The funds transported during the almost three years of Dorado’s relationship with the plot, the investigation indicates, could be those of Nene, who would have received those “apparently unjustified benefits from the construction company Grupo Conector SA (Gruconsa) as alleged consideration for the contracting of construction projects of the RFEF and linked to it.” For this, they would have used the previously mentioned company Dismatec, of which Purificación Rufino, Nene’s wife, is the sole director.
She would not, however, be the only wife involved in the movement of money. The conversations intercepted by the investigators also point to Dorado’s wife, who in one of the calls with Nene is asked if she can “go to a hotel, they will give you something“and that if she can “come back on Monday again, they will do it little by little.” Shortly after, Dorado and she travel to Punta Cana and return to Spain “just three days later.”
The Civil Guard also points out that other relatives of Dorado, such as his sister, could also be involved in the movement of cash. The following is a literal transcription of a conversation between Nene and supposedly the sister of the alleged ‘straw man’ of the plot in reference to possible packages of 10,000 euros:
Transcription of the conversation between Nene and possibly Israel Dorado’s sister
Sister: Look at the one you told me that ten less come from that one.
Nene: Like ten less?
H: Yes, in one that says twenty, they go in ten.
N: How?
H: Look at it, because I have opened it in front of the cameras, because that is why I have them here.
N: What does it say on that?
H: Look and see where it is. Yes, in which the two were mixed.
N: What happens in the one where the two were mixed?
H: Instead of twenty there come ten.
N: Yes, yes.
H: Oh okay, as it says twenty…
N: No, but I told you: count, there must be seventy in total.
H: Okay then wait, I’m going out…
N: There, not there, I don’t know there, that’s two, three… well, I’ve counted you about ten, that’s it.
H: Ah, okay, okay, well then that’s it, I was already worried, so I just told everything and now I’m telling you, okay? Bye bye.
N: Noo, no, come on, don’t worry, calm down, goodbye.
The reference group
One of the key destinations for the money, the UCO reports point out, would be the different “365” companies that would correspond to the ownership of a hotel in Punta Cana and in Spain and in which Israel Dorado appears as administrator, although he is not would be the real owner, but Nene. “Dorado would act as a visible face of bussiness from Group 365, although economic controlboth in the Dominican Republic and in Spain, could be exercised by Nene through its own company, Explotaciones Hoteleras Nazaríes”.
That hotel would be very important for the plot, since a good part of the operation is derived from the movement of its funds. For example, in an intercepted conversation between Nene and Francisco Oliva Juárez, CEO of Gruconsa, Luis Rubiales’ partner shows the power he has to “dispose” of 365’s funds and invest them in other projects: “…50% You give it in money and 50% in apartments. I think I can take 50% of the money from 365 and take it there.”
2024-04-03 14:32:33
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