Rubiales, blunt: “I have neither received bites from Piqué nor have I been with prostitutes”

Very dark, dressed in sports clothes and sitting in a paradisiacal garden. This is how it has reappeared Luis Rubiales this wednesday in The objectivewhere he has maintained a tense ‘face to face’ with the journalist Ana Pastorto which he has blurted out on several occasions: “If you interrupt me every time I want to speak, this is impossible, Mrs. Pastor.”. Between tugs of war, the former president of the Federation, who landed in Spain this Wednesday, spoke about all the controversies he has had since the last Women’s Football World Cup and that have brought him to justice: from the kiss with Jennifer Hermoso to the alleged illegal commissions for which he is being investigated.

Rubiales denied having participated in or authorized the allegedly irregular contracts during his time as president of the RFEF: “I don’t know what they are investigating because I don’t have the Summary. I am here to say that it is a lie that he has taken a bite with the construction of apartments, that has a baseball team, that has land in Saudi Arabia…”. Bluntly, he stated: “I haven’t taken any bite from Piqué, he has never offered me anything. I really want to talk to the judge, I have nothing to hide”.

The former footballer also separated from Gruconsa, his friend Nene’s construction company, to which several works were assigned by the RFEF: “I have nothing to do with that company, I have never worked with that construction company, if it passed the filters and competitions of the people who supervised everything, “What’s the problem? In this country there is no presumption of innocence.” Rubiales lamented the “media lynching” to which he is subjected: “I have all my accounts blocked, I can’t buy a soda and no one has proven anything. There is a devastating and devastating current against certain people without having proven anything”. And he added: “I had some savings and all the money I have in my accounts was the product of my work. Currently I have no income.”

About Jennifer Hermoso, maintains her story that that kiss was a spontaneous act “between friends” and that there was no sexual assault because there was a question on his part and a statement on hers: “She said that there was a relationship of trust. There was nothing sexual. It’s all there. She came out to deny that there was anything and then changed her version but she didn’t do it on the plane, as she said, she did it once she spoke to people outside.” She also defended herself against the information that suggested that she organized parties with escort girls and money from the Federation: “If you gave me a truth serum and asked me if I had been with prostitutes, I would say no. The relationships I have always had have been between two adults on a voluntary basis”.

Your new life in the Dominican Republic

Rubiales moved to the Dominican Republic before Christmas to start some businesses that are now being looked at with a magnifying glass and that he defends tooth and nail: “Why can’t I be here? I didn’t want to be in the spotlight, I wanted to start from scratch, meet people and be able to make a living outside of football. My bank tells me that they don’t want to continue working with me and I had to make a living for my family to move forward. There are many opportunities here, it is a paradise but not tax, All the money I have transferred from my accounts has complied with a strict review process. “I’m looking for hotel businesses, sales and purchases of real estate, construction… They don’t want to let me make a living in football or anywhere else,” he lamented.

Furthermore, the man from Granada assures that he has never had accounts outside of Spain (except those in the Dominican Republic, opened after his expulsion from the Federation) and that he has always paid taxes in his country: “I have suffered such a great media beating that it was impossible to work in Spain. I have accounts here, nothing more, and I have always paid taxes in Spain. “I am not going to separate myself from my country, my daughters, my family are here, and I will always return.”