Former Spanish football federation president Angel Maria Villar has been ordered to serve a 15 and a half-year prison sentence for alleged corruption and embezzlement, according to the public prosecutor’s office in Spain.
More than $ 4.84 million was allegedly defrauded by contracts arranged under Villar between 2007 and 2017.
The prosecution is requesting a seven-year prison sentence for Gorka Villar’s son, as well as former vice president of the Spanish football federation (RFEF), Juan Padron, and former vice president of the RFEF.
After serving as federation president for 29 years, Villar was given a suspension for his alleged involvement in the “soule case” in 2017.
Villar is accused of embezzlement, business corruption, misappropriation of funds, and falsifying documents in the indictment from Thursday, which was revealed by AFP’s news agency.
By organizing friendly matches with the Spanish national team and drafting contracts around them, the former president is supposed to have gained both himself and his son.
According to the prosecution, Villar chose specific opponents for Spain to profit, “coinciding with the rise in prestige and, consequently, the cachet of (the national team), derived from its triumphs in the 2008 and 2012 European Championships and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.”
South Korea, Chile, Venezuela, Peru, and Colombia were the matches Villar and his son are suspected to have won.
Luis Rubiales, who forcibly kissed Women’s World Cup player Jenni Hermoso during a crisis-hitting period for the federation, took Villar’s place in 2023. Rubiales resigned in disgrace.
Source: Aljazeera
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