The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) announced on Wednesday that elections will be held on May 6 to elect its new president, successor to the disgraced Luis Rubiales.
The president of the RFEF’s control committee after Rubiales’ resignation, Pedro Rocha, has resigned from the commission to stand in the elections, in which he is the main candidate, according to Spanish media.
Local media expect his big opponent to be Eva Parera, a lawyer specializing in sports law.
Former president Rubiales was forced to resign as RFEF coach in September after forcibly kissing Women’s World Cup star Jenni Hermoso following Spain’s triumph in the Sydney final in August.
At its meeting on Wednesday, the RFEF’s control commission will also “initiate criminal proceedings against all those who may have caused economic or reputational damage to the institution”.
The move comes in the wake of the alleged corruption scandal at the RFEF when Rubiales was president.
Several members of the federation, Rubiales added, are being investigated as part of an investigation into allegations of corruption and other crimes.
AUTHORIZED AUDIT
Earlier on Wednesday, Rubiales was arrested at Madrid’s Barajas airport shortly after arriving from the Dominican Republic, but released shortly after as part of the investigation.
His arrest comes two weeks after investigators searched 11 locations, including the RFEF headquarters in Madrid and Rubiales’ headquarters in the southern town of Granada, as part of an “investigation into alleged crimes such as corporate corruption, administrative fraud and money laundering. “according to judicial sources.
In the wake of the March 20 raids, the RFEF fired its legal director Pedro González Segura, its human resources director José Javier Jiménez and terminated their contract with GC Legal, the company of the federation’s external legal advisor, Tomás González Cueto.
All three had been arrested during police searches.
Spanish media reported that investigators were investigating RFEF contracts signed since 2018, adding the one signed through Rubiales to bring the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia.
The RFEF announced on Wednesday that it had authorized an audit for the 2018-2023 period, the five-year period linked to the corruption scandal.
“The Steering Committee (. . . ) it has also given the green light to a forensic audit that will collect data on the movements investigated during the 2018-2023 period,” the RFEF wrote in a statement published on its website.
“The objective is to clarify all the facts surrounding this case and get it to the courts, thus allowing a definitive solution and allowing the establishment to turn the page on a convulsive era that has seriously broken the symbol of the Spanish language. American football. “
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