Just a few weeks after the controversy caused by the negotiation and subsequent transfer of the Super Cup to Saudi Arabia, Luis Rubiales has been involved in another controversy this Monday. According to El Confidencial, the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) would have paid for a pleasure trip to New York with money from the football organization, which minutes after the publication of the news assured in a statement that "the information is false ".
The leader argued that he was traveling to the United States to hold working meetings with representatives of the UN and Major League Soccer (MLS), but as confirmed by the newspaper, he actually spent a week sightseeing with a Mexican painter, with whom he had a relationship. sentimental.
Continuing with the information from El Confidencial, the president organized the trip with the El Corte Inglés agency and passed the expenses of flights, accommodation and rental car to the RFEF. The flight, from Madrid to New York, would have been in business class with the American Airlines company and he would have stayed at the four-star hotel The Nolitan paying 350 euros per night.
The expenses of Rubiales were charged in the hotel file and expenses are also specified in the card of a third party, with the acronym E. F., who worked in the Federation. The trip would have taken place between October 31 and November 4, 2018, just five months after becoming president of the federal entity.
El Confidencial adds that the meetings in the United States in search of sponsors and the holding of national team matches, which in principle should have been with the UN and the MLS, did not take place. If these facts are confirmed, Rubiales is exposed to a crime of unfair administration, which is punishable by up to three years in prison.
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