Florentino Perez and Joan Laporta also had to apply according to the TAD criteria | Relief
Last Monday, the TAD published its resolution following a complaint that Miguel Angel Galan, President of CENAFE (National Center of Football Coaches), submitted to the CSD asking the disqualification of Pedro Rocha and the Governing Commission for some decisions taken in recent months by the head of the Royal Spanish Football Federation.
In short, the court assessed whether there was sufficient evidence to initiate disciplinary proceedings in the case. committing an alleged very serious violation of six decisions taken by Pedro Rocha during the seven months he headed the RFEF. Four of them will also affect members of the Board.
One of the facts that TAD considered could be a very serious violation was:decision taken by the Board to dismiss the RFEF Secretary General.” In its letter, TAD states that “may be seen as a decision that goes beyond the normal management of the affairs of the federation and therefore jeopardizes the management of the RFEF, taking into account the functions entrusted to the Secretary General in relation to the work of the RFEF and his status as an executive directorate. .“This is the decision, according to the court,”may jeopardize the functioning of the institution, going beyond the normal referral of matters entrusted to the Management Commission as a temporary body created to ensure the continued continuity of the functioning of the federation.“.
Based on this consideration, the collegial body assessed”there is sufficient evidence to initiate administrative proceedings to punish Mr. Pedro Angel Rocha Junco and the remaining members of the Management Committee for committing an alleged very serious violation“.
The case is about sanctions that, according to the TAD resolution, will affect 26 members of the Management Commission due to this violation, evaluates the event of September 20, when Florentino Perez And Joan Laporta They were members of the management committee.. Both, according to a letter sent to the RFEF to which Relevo had access, They submitted their resignations on October 30.. “This decision is motivated by my desire not to interfere, by virtue of my position at the Club, in the electoral process for the creation of a new board of directors, which is due to take place in the near future in this federation,” reads the letter from the President of FC Barcelona. . For his part, the head of Real Madrid noted: “My decision is determined by the intention not to interfere in the electoral process that this federal entity is about to begin.”
Possible violation This will also affect one of the territorial presidents, Salvador Gomara, who resigned on December 21.On the same day, Pedro Rocha convened an extraordinary assembly of the RFEF, which approved the budgets and confirmed that the salary of the President of the Management Commission would be the same as that of Luis Rubiales: 634,518.19 euros. After the resignation of Luis Rubiales on September 10, before it was transformed into the Management Commission, the presidents of the territorial federations, José Juan Arencibia (Las Palmas) and José Angel Pelaez (Cantabria), finally resigned from the Board of Directors. On 25 August after what was known as the “Assembly of Shame”, as well as Javier Landeta (Basque Country) and Kepa Arrieta (Alava), who did the same on 3 September, and Manuel Díaz de Marcos, who resigned two days later 5th of the same month.
The document itself states that “On April 10, 2024, an extension of the previous letter was received from the CD indicating them as members of the Management Committee. Elvira Andres Monte, Eduardo Bandres Molina, Antonio Suarez Santana, Rafael Del Amo Ariza, Joan Soteras Vigo, Pablo Lozano Duenas, Pablo Burillo Cabañero, Oscar Fle Latorre, Jose Ignacio Gomez Mardones, Rafael Luzan Abad, Jose Manuel Molina Mas, Jose Ramon Cuetos Lobo, Maria Dolores Martinez Madrona, Francisco Goya Gato, Maria Martos Brigido, Ivan Bravo Martin, D. Marcelino S. Mate Martinez, Laura del Rio Garcia, Thais Enriquez Torres, Luis Medina Cantalejo, David Gutiérrez Saiz, Angeles Aguilera Rangel, Alejandro Morales Mancito, Josep “Pep” Sanso Nicolau and Francisco Javier Diez Ibáñez.”
Both the petitioner and the CSD did not include members of the above-mentioned commission on 20 September. when one of the events that TAD had to assess, the dismissal of Andreu Camps, occurred and which was ultimately assessed as a possible very serious violation. According to the court’s criteria, which were applied when initiating disciplinary proceedings against the 26 members of the Management Commission, the court must also file claims against Florentino Pérez, Joan Laporta and Salvador Gomar. – for now they have not distanced themselves from this decision – because when Andreu Kamps was fired, all three were members of the management committee.
RFEF claims that Camps’ contract did not pass through the Management Commission
On Tuesday, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) released a statement saying:lack of rigor and legal motivation of the TAD disciplinary caseAs an argument in favor of such consideration, the institution offered several arguments on various facts, which the Court considered to be very serious violations and in respect of which it proposed dismissal from office and disqualification for a period of two months to one year of Pedro Rocha and the members of the Management Commission in the event that they will eventually be sanctioned.
Regarding the dismissal of Secretary General Andreu Camps, the statement reads: “This decision was not made by management, so furthermore it is a reason beyond the control of its members. The dismissal of former General Secretary Andreu Kamps, who holds the highest leadership position according to the RFEF statute, which was not even challenged by himself, was a decision approved precisely by the CSD itself.“. A circumstance that is also included in the summary of the judicial investigation in the Majadahonda case with the statement of Andreu Camps before the judge as a witness. When asked by the one who fired him, he was decisive: “The president“.
Legal sources consulted by Relevo indicate that TAD might consider that although the dismissal of the Secretary General was a decision taken solely by Pedro Rocha, it would also affect the entire Management Commission. because they did not condemn the fact that the president made a decision that they, as a representative body, have to evaluate. In this case, the court will also have to consider as members those who were part of the Management Committee on September 20, when Andreu Kamps resigned, provided that they did not distance themselves from the decision. Based on this possible consideration, and also according to the legal criteria set out by the court itself in its judgment, TAD will have to initiate disciplinary proceedings against all members who constituted the Management Commission at that time, including Florentino Pérez, Joan Laporta and Salvador Gomar.