New controversy between LaLiga and the Royal Spanish Football Federation, a new ‘fire’ that will bring tail. According to the newspaper El Mundo this Wednesday, LaLiga will demand from the Federation the immediate reimbursement of 267 million euros, an amount that was diverted in unjustified payments during the last stage of the mandate of Angel Villa at the head of the federal entity.
Apparently Javier Tebas, president of the employer’s association, would have sent a letter to his counterpart in the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, where it is summoned so that within ten days justify the destination of said funds or, failing that, return that money. If the second scenario is reached, the Federation would find itself in a difficult economic situation.
According to information from El Mundo, Thebes explains in the letter that funds came from the coffers of LaLiga and they were granted as a subsidy for the payment of the referees of the different competitions and to defray lodging, trips, diets or courses.
LaLiga specifies that it awarded exactly 275,077,674.19 euros in that period under Villar’s mandate and that “up to 97.16% are not adequately justified. Open fire.
No collaboration
Tebas has also insisted that the auditors have accused those currently responsible for the RFEF “for their lack of collaboration and frontal opposition” to facilitate the supporting documents of the operations. In line, the top leader of LaLiga who has been claiming the fate of these funds in recent years without any response from the federative entity recriminates.
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It’s more, Tebas remembers in the letter that he has sent to Rubiales that already on May 31, 2018 “unsuccessfully requested via burofax” the treasurer of Rubiales “to send the information justifying the money with an expressly finalist character. But to date no satisfactory response has been given to the documentary requests made”.