The investigating judge, in charge of the investigation into alleged corruption by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), is looking for evidence of bribes paid following the choice to hold the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia. In particular, you sent the Andorra authorities a letter rogatory to verify the accounts of the former Barcelona footballer, Gerard Piquet, director of "Kosmos", the sporting events company mediating the transfer of the event.
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In the letter rogatory, cited by the Efe agency, judge Delia Rodrigo considers it "absolutely necessary" to verify whether Piquet paid "gifts" to the former president of the Football Federation,
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, or to other RFEF executives with the aim of transferring the competition to Saudi Arabia and asks for information on the "complete traceability of funds received from Kosmos". Investigators want to know the destination of the "commissions paid" by Sela, a Saudi public company, to Kosmos of 24 million euros for six seasons of the Super Cup celebrated in the Arab country, for the agreement closed with the Football Federation for 40 million euros per season , 240 million in total.
The civil guard reports in its report that between June 2019 and March 2022 an Andorra current account received 3.4 million euros from the Kosmos account, part of the "commissions" received by Piquet's group from the Saudi Sela. In the letter rogatory, the magistrate also asks to locate Piquet's account "for issuing the payment" of two million euros to another Spanish company in February 2021 and to identify other current accounts in which the former Blaugrana footballer appears.
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