The Prosecutor’s Office requests 15 and a half years in prison for alleged corruption. The Public Ministry accuses him of being involved in the Soulé case, in which the obtaining of contracts between 2007 and 2017 that would have caused the federation of 4.5 million is investigated. Anticorruption has presented an accusation brief against eight involved in this case. Among them is also the son of the former federative president, Gorka, for whom he asks for a sentence of seven years in prison for unfair administration and corruption in business.
Villar, who spent a few days in preventive detention in this case, is accused of crimes of unfair administration, corruption in business and undue appropriation in medial competition with a continuous crime of falsehood in commercial document and claims to impose a fine of about one million euros. Another defendant is the former vice president of the RFEF Juan Padrón, for whom they ask for six and a half years in jail. In this case, open at the National Court in 2017, when Villar still continued at the head of the Federation (1988-2017), it has been investigated whether the former president and Padrón took advantage of their positions between 2007 and 2017 to benefit people from their environment through obtaining contracts, including several parties of the selection with the
As the SER chain has advanced, the prosecution’s letter points out that since at least 2009, Ángel María Villar decided that his son Gorka chose the rival teams of the Spanish team in friendly matches, so that it was his company that determined against whom Spain played, in what place the game and economic conditions would be. The Spanish team ended up playing against the selections of South Korea, Chile, Venezuela, Peru and Colombia, with a damage to the RFEF of at least 3.8 million and income for Gorka Villar and its society of 366,583 euros, as detailed by the letter.
The Prosecutor’s Office adds that the parties against Korea, played in June 2010 and in May 2012, were agreed against the criteria of the intermediary hired by the RFEF for the organization of this type of meetings and that it had promised to pay the institution half a million euros for each and pay for expenses in exchange for audiovisual rights. Instead, according to the prosecutor, the company of Gorka Villar organized it by asserting that he was the son of the president. The Prosecutor’s Office estimates that the damage to the Federation would have been 630,000 euros.
