Former Spanish Football Federation President Arrested on Multiple Charges

The former president of the Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, has been arrested by the Civil Guard, who picked him up upon his arrival at Barajas Airport (Madrid) just back in Spain from the Dominican Republic. This was learned from sources of the Benemerita cited by Tve. The former head of Spanish football was taken to court in a police van, where his statement will be collected: the man is being investigated by court number 4 of Majadahonda for the crimes of money laundering, corporate corruption, mismanagement, and belonging to a criminal organization. Rubiales was supposed to return to Madrid on Saturday, April 6. La Sexta captured the image of the moment when, after getting off the plane, he was loaded onto a police van to prevent him from exiting through the area reserved for the rest of the passengers of Terminal 1 of Barajas. Luis Rubiales was taken to court, on the van escorted by the Civil Guard along the streets of Madrid. Luis Rubiales broke the silence in an interview with Ana Pastor that will air tonight on La Sexta. In a small preview of the statements of the former president of the Rfef, Rubiales denies many of the reports spread in Spain, saying he does not own property in Cape Verde or Saudi Arabia. Moreover, Rubiales justifies his travels during his tenure at the head of the Rfef: "What happens, that the president of the Spanish Federation has to live in a bubble outside of society?". Rubiales, for whom the Prosecutor's Office has requested two and a half years of imprisonment for the non-consensual kiss and subsequent coercion, had been living for several weeks in Punta Cana while in Spain his return was awaited to be arrested as a criminal, after the investigation conducted by the Uco of the Civil Guard on alleged irregular contracts of the Spanish football federation.