Luis Rubiales, recently temporarily suspended as president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and as vice president of the Uefahas been forced by justice to double the alimony he pays to his ex-wife for the three daughters they have in common after a “substantial increase” of your income. This has been determined by the Tenth Section of the Provincial Court of Valencia in a ruling dated June 19 to which EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA, from the Prensa Ibérica group, has had access, and in which it is detailed, based on the statements of Rubiales’ own income, the income he has had during the last decade.
In this way, and as can be seen from the data contained in that documentation, the still president of the RFEF would have gone from joining 97,237 euros as net income from your work in 2011 to 955,079 euros in 2020, when he had already been in office for two and a half years. That year he earned more than double what he did in 2019 and more than quadruple what he did in 2018.
That tenfold increase in your income on account of work would have motivated his ex-partner, whom he divorced in 2013, to request a review of the alimony he receives for the daughters they have in common. When her request was refuted by Rubiales himself in court, the updated pension would have been practically half of what the mother was asking for and double what the father had paid to date. This newspaper has tried to obtain Luis Rubiales’ version through the RFEF, but the organization did not want to make statements since he is no longer part of the federation.
“Increase in remuneration”
The magistrates justify their decision to increase the pension by “the sharp increase in compensation” of Rubialesa situation that must be reflected, the judges conclude, “in the amount of alimony, and not only, as the ruling has decided [del 9 de mayo de 2022 por el Juzgado de Primera Instancia número 6 de Llíria]in full payment by the appellee of the extraordinary expenses”.
The ruling of the Provincial Court of Valencia to which EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA has had access does not accept, therefore, the arguments of Rubiales’ defense, who refused to increase the payments intended for his daughters for the “temporary nature of the charges which he holds as president of the Spanish Football Federation, and as vice-president of UEFA”, as he has detected a “sustained increase over time, and growing in his income”.
In fact, say the magistrates, “in the event that their remuneration also decreases in a lasting and significant manner, it may be of interest to reduce their nutritional contribution for their daughters”, a situation that may arise if their departure from office is confirmed. definitive form of the presidency of the RFEF and the vice-presidency of UEFA as a result of the Jenni Hermoso case. Faced with the sentence, Rubiales could file an appeal.
1.6 million in revenue
Based on the documentation provided by Rubiales’ defense, the president entered more than 1.6 million euros as net income from work between 2018 and 2020. His fixed salary, but above all his total income, have been a mystery since he took office in the summer of 2018, when he promised a revolution and greater transparency compared to the model of his predecessor, Ángel María Villar. As soon as he took office, however, Rubiales received a fixed salary of 160,000 euros gross per year plus a variable of 0.6% of sponsorship income.
In his income tax return, the newly inaugurated president declared that he had received net income during that year as income from work of 231,700 euros. The income, far from remaining stable at those amounts, doubled year after year as Rubiales expanded his power in Spain and also in Europe.
The big change
In mid-2019, Luis Rubiales was unanimously elected by the members of the UEFA Executive Committee as the new vice president of the organization, a position he held until the recent suspension of FIFA as a result of the case. Jenni Beautiful. In exchange, and according to him it has emerged, the president received 250,000 euros gross per year.
To that half a year’s salary we would have to add the 160,000 euros of his fixed salary as president of the RFEF, so, grossly, from his work alone he would have contributed around 285,000 gross euros plus variables. According to your income tax return for that year, 2019Rubiales declared having entered as net income from work 458,655 euros.
The big change, however, occurred in 2020, the year of the pandemic, when the president declared having won 955,078 eurosThat is, more than double that of 2019 and more than quadruple that of 2018, the year in which he began to preside over the Royal Spanish Football Federation starting in May.
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In 2020, after closing the operation to bring the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia, for which the RFEF pocketed 40 million euros annually, Rubiales proposed to the assembly a new modification of their remuneration. The variable part was no longer linked to sponsorships but was linked to the Federation’s total income, thus incorporating million-dollar agreements into the account, such as those reached with the Saudi dictatorship.
Specifically, Rubiales kept 0.15% of the total income of the RFEF, discounting those from public subsidies. In 2022, after the controversy aroused by the publication of his audios and private conversations, he proposed a new change, consolidating as a fixed salary the one collected the previous year with the formula in force at that time, 635,000 euros. That is the amount that he continued to earn until the moment he was suspended by FIFA, regardless of his remuneration as vice president of UEFA.