The Civil Guard points out that Piqué is an “active party” to the Super Cup contract and requests an investigation into his accounts.

In addition to asking the instructor to request information about those investigated, he also requests that she request the Saudi authorities from the commercial company SELA—a Saudi public company— data on the signing of the agreement with the RFEF for the celebration of the Spanish Soccer Super Cup.

Kosmos mediated “in favor of the RFEF and not sela”

The agents transfer the judge the “indications” collected in relation to the first negotiations for the celebration of the Super Cup abroad and include the different “alternatives” that the RFEF established for the celebration of the tournament outside of Spain.

As they specify, “among the different intermediaries who offered their services to negotiate, it is necessary to highlight that Piqué was an active part in the process through his representative’s company AC TALENT.”

When reviewing the chronology of the events that gave rise to the contract to bring the ‘Super Cup’ to Saudi Arabia, the UCO points out that it can be “infer that the intermediation carried out by Kosmos would have really been exercised in favor of the RFEF and not SELA”in reference to the Saudi public company.

In its report, the UCO gives details of Piqué’s collaboration with the Federation beyond the agreement with Saudi Arabia. Specifically, it points to the existence of emails and meetings in which television rights were “explored and negotiated, as well as the celebration and format of the Copa del Rey and the Spanish Super Cup.”

For the agents, “it is notable that not only Arturo Juan Canales participated in the negotiations on behalf of AC Talent – the footballers’ agency that he presides – but that Piqué was also present, thus understanding that he would also be part of the intermediation team, at least in that line of business.”

The WhatsApp group of Luis Rubiales and Piqué

However, the UCO clarifies that “the relations between Piqué and his entourage with the RFEF are not limited” only to those matters, but also included agreements, for example, with the Japanese company. Rakutenor with Cosmos and the entity to develop an audiovisual project called ‘MVP Academy’.

In its report, the Civil Guard also reports on the creation in March 2019 of a WhatsApp group under the name ‘Spanish Super Cup’ formed by Rubiales, Piqué, Canales and also the then director of the RFEF Rubén Rivera. Although the messages exchanged during the meeting are unknown, the agents maintain that “from that moment on, greater involvement and interest on the part of the RFEF in the Saudi Arabia option can be seen.”

In April of that same year, changes were made to the memorandum of understanding, which was signed that month. It was then that Andreu Camps, who was general secretary of the RFEF, indicated that a “third party”, China, had shown its interest in holding the Super Cup in that country. Camps, according to the UCO, warned that before signing agreements such as the one that was going to be reached with Saudi Arabia, the CNMC had to be informed and approved in the entity’s assembly.

The search for a new headquarters

Within the framework of the report, the researchers also remember that when the pandemic made it impossible to hold the tournament in 2021, the Federation and SELA had to propose a “new negotiation scenario given the infeasibility of fulfilling the contract”.

“In these new negotiations in which the possibility of terminating the agreement and the search for a new headquarters was considered, Kosmos intervened again“, they emphasize and add that within the framework of said intermediation there were “contacts” between Piqué and Rubiales, as well as “other Kosmos and RFEF workers.”