Former RFEF President Luis Rubiales has been convicted of sexual assault, after the courtroom dominated that he had kissed Jenni Hermoso with out her consent through the celebrations of Spain’s 2023 World Cup triumph. Lower than every week after going into deliberation, a call was made.
The prosecution had requested a sentence of two.5 years for Rubiales, for sexual assault and coercion, of which 1.5 years was for the latter a part of the sentence. Former RFEF Advertising and marketing Director Ruben Rivera, ex-Spain supervisor Jorge Vilda and ex-sporting director Albert Luque have been additionally accused of coercion, nonetheless all 4 have been cleared of these prices.
The sentence for Rubiales falls a good distance wanting that requested by the prosecution, with Rubiales being sentenced to a high quality of 18 months at a charge of €20 per day. The entire charge that Rubiales can be pressured to pay will quantity to €10.8k over the course of that interval. He will even have a restraining order positioned on him, which doesn’t enable him to return inside 200m of Hermoso for the following yr, as reported by Marca.
It isn’t the one authorized bother that Rubiales is in, as he’s at the moment a part of two additional investigations. A type of centres round alleged corruption for monetary manoeuvers throughout his time as president of the RFEF, and one other for alleged fraud, because of the method during which the contract between the RFEF and Saudi Arabia for the Spanish Supercup to be hosted within the Center East, which was brokered by Gerard Pique’s firm Kosmos.