El Confidencial has brought to light new information about the relationship between Luis Rubiales and Gerard Piqué. In this new installment, it is revealed how the president of the Spanish Football Federation hid from the internal control bodies of the Spanish Football Federation his pact with the footballer Gerard Piqué to get a salary increase and that the latter took a “commission of success” of up to 24 million euros for the agreement for the Spanish Super Cup to be played in Saudi Arabia.
In the new emails to which the aforementioned media has had access and which are part of the ‘Supercopa Files’, a set of emails that were unpublished until now, the Vice President of Integrity of the Federation, Ana Muñoz, wrote on November 26, 2019 to the secretary general of the organization and Rubiales’ right-hand man, Andreu Camps, to ask for the contract with Arabia for the Super Cup and “know the terms of Kosmos’ participation (Gerard Piqué’s company) on this issue”. Luis Rubiales and his team denied that there was any type of agreement, through which 24 million euros in commissions were distributed. In this way, the president of the Federation tried to hide a possible conflict of interest, due to the double role of businessman and active player played by Piqué in the talks.
The head of Integrity reminded Andreu Camps that the Ethics Committee, a theoretically independent body that ensures compliance with the Federation’s Code of Ethics and defends the application of good practices against “illegal, immoral or contrary to ethical methods and practices ”, wanted his report on the transfer of the Super Cup to Saudi Arabia to be presented to the Board of Directors of the institution, one of its main governing bodies.
As revealed by El Confidencial, Camps replied to Muñoz that the report of the Ethics Committee was not expected to be delivered to the Board of Directors. “I don’t think it will go up,” he said. The vice president of Integrity asked the reason why she was not going to study at the government body. “Is someone going to tell the Ethics Committee that it will not be raised to the Board of Directors,” Muñoz inquired again. “I don’t think anyone is going to tell him,” Camps explained minutes later. Given this response, the vice president of the RFEF and the Ethics Committee denounced Camps in a new email for the lack of reasons or reasons to silence a report that highlighted such serious events. “It is difficult for me not to give them any explanation. Because they will ask me. And it is difficult for me to explain what is inexplicable to me, that a topic that obviously has ethical connotations (whether they are shared or not) cannot be discussed,” Muñoz explained. But the insistence did not help. “Well, you should talk about it with the Presidency and with the President (Rubiales)”, settled the general secretary of the RFEF.
El Confidencial has also revealed that Luis Rubiales vetoed a report from the Ethics Committee of the Federation itself, which was opposed to holding the Super Cup in Saudi Arabia because it was a dictatorship that tramples on the rights of women, punishes homosexuality and applies the death penalty. According to the sources consulted by the aforementioned media, the three members of the The Ethics Committee had issued a harsh opinion against the pact with Saudi Arabia, recalling that it is one of the worst tyrannies in the worldin which human rights are systematically violated, and that the contract to stay in the Super Cup was only going to serve to whiten their international image. After not taking said report into account, on January 16, 2020, both Ana Muñoz and the three members of the RFEF Ethics Commission presented their resignation en bloc.