the heir and the president’s favorite are being investigated for two crimes | Relief

Spanish volleyball is still marked by the shadows of abuses and lawsuits. After Relevo learned the details of the management of its President Agustin Martin Santos, in office since 2000, and his subsequent eight-month disqualification by the CSD, a trial begins that is investigating a large number of senior officials of the federation. regional and national level.

Among those studied are the most influential leaders of this sport in Spain in recent years: Agustin Martin SantosPresident of the Royal Spanish Volleyball Federation (RFEVB) since 2000, currently suspended by TAD; Felipe PascualPresident of the Madrid Federation, number 2 in the RFEVB and favorite to succeed Agustin as President after the Assembly elections; Antonio SangradorPresident of the Castilian-Leonese Federation and who hired the former President of the RFEVB as an “administrator” in his Autonomous Community, as Martín Santos himself admitted to Relevo a few months ago; And Javier Garcia RomeroSecretary General of the Madrid Federation and right hand of Felipe Pascual.

All They have the status of being investigated for alleged crimes of falsifying documents and evading subterfuge after a complaint was accepted for consideration, which stated that during the previous election process, “the defendants they took advantage of their position supposedly to do fake certificates who accredited the conditions be a voter in an election to give preference to the incumbent RFEVB President“.

As Relevo learned, last Monday, October 7, The suspects were summoned to court. Instructions No. 4 of Madrid and everyone, including Pascual himself, They exercised the right not to declare and, therefore, not to answer questions from the investigating judge or the prosecution lawyer.

⁠Now the investigation procedure will continue with the processing of the remaining evidence, including the testimony requested by the plaintiff.as well as the remaining documentary evidence requested in the complaint, pending whether the case will end in litigation, among other things, and, if nothing changes, against whoever is likely to become the next president of the RFEVB.

Instruction in the electoral process

Interestingly, the investigation into the justice system is now running parallel and coincides with the new electoral process in the cycle leading up to the 2028 Games in Los Angeles, in which the “eternals” no longer participate in the elections. . ‘President Agustin Martin Santos, and where it has already been held. voting for members of the assembly with a very favorable result for Felipe Pascualcontinuing the candidacy of the previous board of directors and being investigated in this matter.

As stated in the complaint and as the winner of the elections in Relevo himself admitted in May, the candidacy of Martin Santos I was looking for all kinds of tools to add support. “The rules allowed athletes who had a valid license and had been licensed in the previous season at a state meet to vote. All of us, including Ms. Maribel Zamora, said: Let’s see who you know who played last year and doesn’t have a license this year? We gave everyone a license. Where? anywhere“, the leader admitted to this publication. In terms of the number of complainants brought to the attention of the judicial system, there was an increase of 878 people in the census, of which at least 296 do not meet the necessary requirements.

The initiator of this movement was what happened to the team from CD Apostolado de Valladolid, a “ghost team” that never played a game and was formed, according to the Castilian-Leonese federation, – similar to Agustin in terms of having a job. as an administrative one – players of Canarian origin.

But this is not the only “bad practice” that tarnishes the name of Martin Santos and his immediate team, as an investigation published in Relevo showed. Among other complaints within volleyball there is the recognized duplication of salaries of the president of the RFEVB and the administrator in the federation of Castile and León, which is precisely the most awarded autonomous community in his 24 years as president, with an increase very noteworthy in subsidies – due to a change in method – and the organization of events.