The judge blocks the account of Piqué's company in which he collects Super Cup commissions | The truth

In an order, the magistrate explains that the purpose of this blockade of Piqué's company is that the former FC Barcelona player cannot use the money that Kosmos receives from the SELA Company as a “success commission.” And it seems that – the instructor suspects – SELA could still continue to make money into Piqué's firm to this day.

The instructor has made the decision to intervene in this deposit, in which Piqué would have received up to 24 million euros in bonuses, after a new report from the Prosecutor's Office urged this embargo “because it considers that the development of the investigation can be considered.” as legally controversial the amounts set as a commission or success fee in favor of the aforementioned entity in the contracting of the Super Cup.

This blockade is the first real movement against Piqué, although Rodrigo had previously requested information from fifteen banks about 96 bank accounts in the name of the former Barcelona Football Club player and another 36 of which the former president of Rubiales is the owner.

The blocking of the account from which the profits from the Super Cup finals would be managed occurs just over a month after the judge – in a resolution dated March 21 – openly suggested that the former president of the Royal Spanish Federation of Football (RFEF) was able to influence the referees to guarantee that Real Madrid and Barcelona always played the Super Cup in Saudi Arabia. Since the RFEF signed the controversial contract with Gerard Piqué's Kosmos company that moved the tournament to Arabia from the 2019-2020 season, neither of the two clubs has been missing from the Spanish Super Cup, which is contested by the top two teams in the League and the two finalists of the Cup.

Delia Rodrigo in that writing, advanced by this newspaper, already revealed that among her objectives of the investigation was to clarify exactly what benefits Luis Rubiales and Gerard Piqué obtained from the organization of the Super Cup and how far their maneuvers went so that this competition was guaranteed everything. the attraction with the participation of the two giants of Spanish football.

«Gerard Piqué is known to have belonged as a player to FC Barcelona at the time of the agreements, a club that, together with Real Madrid CF, appears in one of the clauses of one of the contracts expressly contemplated in the sense that, if he does not appear as participating in the tournament, for not having obtained classification in the Spanish competition that gives the right to do so, gives rise to an economic penalty translated into a loss of income for the FEF in the amount of five million euros for each edition in which “this happened,” explained the instructor.

And immediately afterwards, in the same order, he flatly recalled that “in the Spanish competitions of the League and the Copa del Rey, the refereeing team is statutorily dependent on the RFEF itself through the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA).” An allusion that could suggest that Rubiales had the ability to influence the RFEF in the arbitration so that there would not be this million-dollar penalty.

“Authentic role” by Piqué

In addition to the above, based on the data accumulated to date, it is necessary, as Judge Rodrigo stated a month ago, to clarify in the investigation the “authentic role” of Gerard Piqué and his group of companies. Both with respect to his eventual business relations with the RFEF and with Saudi Arabian authorities linked to the celebration of the Super Cup, which gave rise to movements of funds, some of which are the subject of this request for judicial cooperation.

Piqué and his company Kosmos had been in the spotlight of the Civil Guard for months, which is trying to close all aspects of the case with a series of proceedings aimed at clarifying the payments received by his company in Andorra for the organization of the Super Cup. The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the armed institute – judicial police by order of the Majadahonda court – already demanded half a year ago to trace the accounts in Spain and Andorra related to the former Barça player and president of the Kosmos company for his alleged relationship with the contract negotiated with Rubiales.

Specifically, the UCO asked the court on September 19, 2023 to request information from the authorities of the Principality, specifically addressed to the banking entity Mora Banc Grup, about a series of transfers related to this contract. The agents focused on accounts of Andorra, a football team owned by Piqué that competes in the Second Division, to find out the destination of the funds coming from an account titled by Kosmos.

In this account, the police document stated verbatim, “the success commissions paid by SELA Sport Company have been collected in consideration for the intermediation services provided in the negotiations with the RFEF for the dispute of the Spanish Super Cup in the territory.” “Saudi.” These commissions are estimated by the UCO at four million euros per year, that is, at the end of the contract signed for ten years, Kosmos would take 40 million.

The UCO explained that its request for information is related to the intention to “verify the possibility that there may have been financial gifts” to Luis Rubiales or other directors of the RFEF by Kosmos or to Gerard Piqué and his entourage, “as a consequence of the negotiation for the celebration of the Spanish Super Cup. “It is an imperative need to be able to carry out complete traceability of the funds received by Kosmos,” continues the UCO, according to the report to which this newspaper has had access, which confirms that “there is a large flow of money between accounts.”