The investigating Justice of the Peace will advocate that former RFEF President Angel Maria Villar is charged with fraud and corruption, after investigation into the ‘Soule Case’ was concluded. Villar is accused of favouring his son in a few of his enterprise dealings whereas on the head of the Royal Spanish Soccer Federation.
Whereas there was no direct contractual relation between Villar and son Gorka Villar, the latter was concerned in Spain’s fixture choice and financial offers by means of his company Sport Advisors. Cadena SER report that he would choose their opponents, agree financial circumstances, after which take a deal to the RFEF, who’re stated to have been defrauded out of €4.5m over the course of a decade between 2007 and 2017. The minimal profit obtained by Gorka Villar was €367k over that interval, whereas Villar senior facilitated this by avoiding the interior controls and tenderin course of.
Friendlies between Spain and South Korea, Chile, Venezuela, Peru and Colombia have all been highlighted as cases the place this occurred. There’s additionally suspicion over an extra €235k that got here out of the RFEF accounts for providers not rendered and the simulation of his secretary’s retirement to offer her financial advantages. 5 extra members of his shut circle are additionally anticipated to sit down trial.
That is simply the newest scandal to besmirch the identify of the RFEF, following the removing of Luis Rubiales as President, and controversy over successors Pedro Rocha and Rafael Louzan. The latter and incumbent is presently going through a court docket determination over his suspension from workplace as a consequence of earlier prices of perversion of justice whereas in public workplace.