He Government of Spain has led the Prosecutor to Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, in order to investigate his links with the CF Fuenlabrada on the case that ended with the dispute of the match against Deportivo de la Coruña, according to La Sexta.
As reported by the Higher Sports Council (CSD) to EFE, “the Ministry of Culture and Sports decided to get going after these events, and gave the instruction to go to court last Friday.” The agency indicated that “throughout these weeks worrying information about the links between Tebas and Fuenlabrada has been happening”, in which his son is secretary of the Board of Directors, “which has generated alarm in many areas of the sports sector ”.
The transfer of the case to the Prosecutor's Office occurs days after the Administrative Court of Sports (TAD) will settle the Deportivo-Fuenlabrada case, considering that only LaLiga has jurisdiction to investigate, which invalidated the file opened by the RFEF, whose instructor proposed the descent of the Madrid club. The decision of the TAD was known before LaLiga rejected the proposal of the RFEF and the Deportivo and Numancia clubs, teams that descended, to expand the Second division to 24 teams, as it was not possible to play in a unified schedule the last day by the positive of Fuenlabrada.
The case in question, popularly known as ‘Fuenlagate’, began with controversy when the Deportivo-Fuenlabrada of the last day, while LaLiga gave the green light for the rest to be played when the day had to be unified. The reason was none other than several positive cases in Fuenlabrada, which later were many more, and that implied the descent of the Galicians without even the possibility of fighting it on the pitch.
He Sports, As the Numantia, also affected by LaLiga's decision, denounced the case, which ended with the dispute of the match in August, ending in a draw due to the disagreement of many of the participating teams of the Second Division.
During the case, several reports pointed to Tebas's relationship with the Madrid club, which represented his own son, which caused the Minister of Culture and Sports to be alerted and that, after the case was deadlocked, he decided to take him to court. Prosecutor's office. The Depor requested in early August the disqualification of Javier Tebas for his performance in suspending the match with him Fuenlabrada, abuse of authority and its non-inhibition in a clear case of conflict of interest.