The Royal Spanish Football Federation has also demanded that its former president return the official car, mobile phone and work computer.
The Real spanish soccer federation (RFEF) has informed its former president Luis Rubiales that it will stop paying his lawyers in his lawsuits, according to sources from the federative body when asked by EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA, from the Prensa Ibérica group. In addition to the legal defense, the RFEF has demanded that Rubiales hand over the official car, mobile phone and work computercontinue the aforementioned sources consulted.
Until now, the Federation covered the expenses generated by Rubiales’ cases, who in recent years has been involved in several lawsuits. For example, The former president was the subject of a complaint in the Investigative Court number 4 of Majadahonda (Madrid); in the so-called Piqué case, for the commissions that the former FC Barcelona player received for organizing the Super Cup in Saudi Arabia.
In the opposite direction, the RFEF filed a complaint in the Investigative Court number 3 of Madrid against Juan Rubiales, uncle of the former president. The federative body accused the former chief of staff of his nephew of irregularly taking over confidential information and then leak it to the media.
At the Madrid Court
The author of the complaint – which is currently in the Provincial Court of Madrid – was the Spanish Football Federation itself, which until now has been covering the payment of the lawyers in this case.
With the resignation of Luis Rubiales, the new heads of the RFEF They must decide whether or not to maintain legal actions against the former president’s uncle.
Andreu Camps, Luis Rubiales and Tomás González Cueto.
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As this editorial has been able to confirm, the lawyers of the Federation in the Court of Instruction number 3 of Madrid, whose head is Judge Isabel Durántez, belong to the GC Legal law firm.
Gonzalez Cueto
The managing partner of this law firm is Tomás González Cueto, external legal advisor of the RFEF and one of Rubiales’ most trusted people.. The sources consulted assure this editorial team that it was he who designed and executed Rubiales’ entire defense strategy after being charged following the publication in El Confidencial of his private conversations with former Barça player Gerard Piqué.
EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA has contacted the office GC Legal, which has declined to comment regarding payments made for their work for the Federation.
At the National Court
The Federation Nor will it cover the hiring of the lawyer Olga Tubauwho was the lawyer of ‘major’ Josep Lluís Trapero, and who now defends Rubiales in the case of the forced kiss on Jenni Hermoso, in which the former president of the federative body is accused in the National Court.
The former president of the RFEF will have to face, if the complaints of which he was subject in Switzerland after the recording and subsequent dissemination of a meeting held at UEFA headquarters, the emoluments of the lawyers hired.