{"id":971,"date":"2025-03-27T13:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2025-03-27T22:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T22:29:37","slug":"prosecution-requests-15-5-year-sentence-for-ex-head-of-spanish-football-federation-in-alleged-corruption-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/prosecution-requests-15-5-year-sentence-for-ex-head-of-spanish-football-federation-in-alleged-corruption-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecution requests 15.5-year sentence for ex-head of Spanish Football Federation in alleged corruption probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Luis Rubiales is not the only former head of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) facing legal battles. His predecessor, Angel Maria Villar, is facing a potential 15.5-year prison sentence for alleged corruption, fraud and misappropriation of funds.<\/p>\n

Villar, who like Rubiales after him was a controversial president of the RFEF, is embroiled in the \u2018Soule Case\u2019, which has been investigating a number of contracts handed out by the Federation during his tenure. Over the course of a decade between 2007 and 2017, the public prosecutor has been conducting an investigation into the awarding of contracts to businesses arranging friendlies for the Spanish Football Federation.<\/p>\n

His son, Gorka Villar, is also wrapped up in the case, as one of the intermediaries alleged to have benefitted from contracts<\/a>. The Anti-Corruption department, following the conclusion of their investigation, have now recommended sentences for the eight suspects involved, including Villar senior and junior.<\/p>\n

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Angel Maria Villar is accused of corruption between businesses, fraud and misappropriation of funds to the tune of \u20ac4.5m, and a sentence of 15.5 years has been suggested. Meanwhile his son, who was one of the beneficiaries of said contracts, has been recommended a sentence of seven years, as per Marca<\/a>. Ex-vice-president Juan Padron is also alleged to have been involved, and is facing a charge of six years.<\/p>\n

Villar was in charge of Spanish football for a total of 29 years between 1988 and 2017, and has defended his innocence in a case that has been ongoing for several years. Villar recently defended the innocence of the referees too<\/a>, when asked about the Negreira case that has seen the Vice-President of the Referees Committee Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira accused of corruption. That investigation is still ongoing, as authorities try to establish the destination of the \u20ac7-8m that Barcelona paid Negreira over a 17-year period until 2018.<\/p>\n

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Luis Rubiales is not the only former head of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) facing legal battles. His predecessor, Angel Maria Villar, is facing a potential 15.5-year prison sentence for alleged corruption, fraud and misappropriation of funds. Villar, who like Rubiales after him was a controversial president of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}