LAS ROZAS (MADRID), March 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The general secretary of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Andreu Camps, expressed this Thursday “the absolute and complete confidence” of the body in the arbitration group despite the information related to the ‘Negreira case’, and warned that they have been able to “verify that a person with government responsibility” was aware of the facts and “did not report it”, and that a member of the estate did not want to collaborate in the questionnaire that was sent.
“I want to express the absolute and complete confidence of this RFEF and its president with the entire arbitration group and that no action that could be proven, even if it is the objective of criminal law, can discredit them and make them doubt their full honesty. If it is proven something, we flatly refuse that this should have negative consequences for our honest and professional members of the arbitration group,” Camps said in an appearance before the media together with Luis Medina Cantalejo, president of the CTA.
The federation director made a chronology of the events, limiting himself to giving “objective explanations that cannot harm the investigation that is being developed and that must continue to be developed”, and that for the organization “the important thing is to reach the end of this investigation “, making it clear that their legal services have indicated that at this time it would be “counterproductive” to file a complaint as the collegiate Xavier Estrada Fernández has already done individually.
Camps confirmed that the Spanish Tax Agency contacted the RFEF in 2021 and that the investigation being carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office “does not last days or weeks” and that during the investigation they have carried out from the federation they have been able to “verify that some person knowing first-hand” the facts did not denounce them “when he had a governmental responsibility”, although he did not give any name.
In addition, it reported that “all the referees and reporting delegates, except one, had contributed to the internal investigation.” “Only one arbitrator neither provided nor answered nor sent the requested information,” he confessed.