MADRID, 16 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) recalled this Thursday that with the arrival to the presidency of Luis Rubiales in 2018, the Arbitration Technical Committee (CTA) was renewed, ceasing, among others, José María Enríquez Negreira, and that since then demands to all its members of its departments the signing of a declaration of no conflict of interest and the justification of income that does not come from the organization.
The RFEF issued a statement considering “it is essential to inform the media and the public” of several clarifications after the information this Wednesday from ‘Ser Catalunya’ indicating that the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating whether there is an alleged crime of corruption between individuals in the former vice president’s company of the CTA, who received payments from FC Barcelona for advising him while he was in office, with the club assuring that it only commissioned a consultant “technical reports related to professional arbitration”.
Thus, the organization stressed that after “the arrival of the current government team”, led by Luis Rubiales, after the May 2018 elections, “the leadership of the CTA was renewed, dismissing the previous directors, among whom was the Mr. Enríquez Negreira”.
In addition, the RFEF stresses that since then “it requires, in addition to the declaration of non-conflicts of interest from all members of various bodies and employees”, another “extended” document that must be signed by “all members of the disciplinary and appointment committees”. arbitral”.
In this, “it is obliged to detail any income, regardless of what is received in the RFEF, that could be related to football for the purpose of being able to evaluate and verify the effective and real absence of conflicts of interest.” “All members have submitted and signed such documents,” he confirmed.
In the same way, the federation confirmed that its Integrity Department began on Wednesday “a confidential information directing requests to both those responsible for the CTA and FC Barcelona” and that it also agreed “to appear in the possible legal proceedings that are followed on this affair”.
“As soon as sufficient information is available, the RFEF will adopt the corresponding measures within the framework of legality that must prevail in all these situations,” said the body chaired by Luis Rubiales.
It must be remembered that FC Barcelona replied on Wednesday to this information that appeared, assuring that “in the past it hired the services of an external technical consultant, who supplied, in video format, technical reports referring to lower-category players in Spain for the technical secretariat “.