In a car dated Monday, to which he has had access EFEthe head of the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 4 of Majadahonda (Madrid) agrees to the request of the Prosecutor’s Office to block the aforementioned account by estimating “that from the development of the investigation the amounts set as commission can be considered legally controversial. or success fee in favor of the aforementioned entity in the contracting of the Super Cup.”
The judge explains that the measure seeks to ensure that the Saudi entity Sela Company Sport continues to “make the corresponding income, as it has been doing until now”, but Kosmos Football is prevented from using the “referred amounts” with the aim of ensure eventual civil liabilities in the procedure.
The contract on the Super Cup is one of those investigated by the magistrate, who already requested judicial assistance in October 2022 from the authorities of the Principality in search of data on a bank account of FC Andorra – mostly owned by Piqué – in the entity. Mora Banc.
In the order issued now, the judge recalls that the Kosmos company is one of those investigated for the alleged crimes of corruption in business, unfair administration and money laundering, and that the case is investigating the contract between the RFEF, Kosmos and Sela Company Sport “to negotiate the celebration of the Super Cup competition in Saudi Arabia, dated September 11, 2019”
“Within the framework of said contract, apparently, a series of addendums to the Super Cup agreements were formalized, through which the aforementioned company was linked as the recipient of a commission in the amount of three million euros per edition ( bonus of success)”, he adds.
The judge estimates that “in accordance with the interests of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, it is considered necessary and essential for the purposes of this investigation to agree to block the requested banking product in order to guarantee any civil liabilities arising from this procedure.”
This decision comes a few days following Luis Rubiales declares in court that he is under investigation, who is scheduled for April 29 in the framework of this case, in which a series of possible irregularities in contracts linked to the RFEF are also being investigated. when he was in charge of the federative entity.
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