Anti-corruption will investigate Piqué and Rubiales for the Super Cup contract

The controversy around Gerard Hammered, player of the FC Barcelona, and Luis Rubiales, president of the Real Spanish Federation of Football, goes back to the palestra. It does roughly a month, the newspaper 'The Confidential' took out to the public light some audios between the defender and the director where remained to the discovered the agreement between the RFEF and Kosmos, the company of the footballer, in which they would receive the payment of 24 million euros for carrying the Supercopa of Spain to Saudi Arabia.

Now, the Fiscalía Anticorrupción has opened an expendiente against the veteran of the Barça and the maximum mandator of the Spanish football to investigate the legitimacy of said agreement. This would arrive after the complaints effected by the president of the National Centre of Training of Trainers of Football (CENAFE), Miguel Ángel Galán, the one who would have accused to Hammered and Rubiales of crimes of corruption between individuals, corruption in the businesses, disloyal administration, administrative prevarication and cohecho by the agreement mentioned in the audios.

Galán Mentions any of the audios like the one of the talk kept between the president and defender on 15 September 2019, in where 'Rubi' congratulates to Hammered by the closing of the business. "Geri, congratulations. And I do not refer me neither to the partidazo of yesterday neither to your goal. I refer me to that they already are more than the 12 and therefore it already is firm the agreement with Saudi Arabia. An embrace, thank you by everything and here am for what need. Well, less for some cosillas that almost better do not need me (laughs). It avenges, an enormous embrace. Take care you a lot, fellow", says him the mandator to the central.

Likewise, the complaint affirms that Rubiales "pactó with Gerard Hammered the collection of a commission multimillionaire by the transfer of the Supercopa of Spain to Saudi Arabia". Besides, it signals that the director "presionó to the authorities of Riad so that they credited to the player of the FC Barcelona until 24 million euros for contesting the tournament in this country and treated afterwards to hide the participation of the footballer in the agreement".

I hammered and Rubiales affirm that everything is legal

By his part, so much Gerard Hammered like Luis Rubiales sustain that all the agreed is absolutely legal and that there is not conflict of interests. Of the same form, in the middle of all the controversy generated when they went out the audios, both parts ensured that the commission to the company of the veteran Catalan player paid it Saudi Arabia and no the Federation. On the other hand, the Public Ministry also will investigate if the RFEF paid the house of Rubiales in Madrid.