The investigation into the former president of the RFEF Luis Rubiales move forward within the framework of the ‘Operation Brody’ deployed by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard and now focuses on the collection of data stored on mobile devices that They were seized in the search of the former leader’s home in Punta Cana (Dominican Republic).
The Majadahonda judge investigating alleged irregularities within the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), during Luis Rubiales’ time as president, has given the green light to the copying and dumping of all seized computer devices.
This is stated in an order from Judge Delia Rodrigo and in which she responds to the request made on April 11 by the agents of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard to the unsealing of that digital evidence.
It’s about a iPhone 15, two iPhone 13, one iPhone 12, one iPad A2461, two WIKO brand mobile phones and another Vortex brand, in addition to several pendrives, one of them with the logo of Gruconsa – a construction company that has been awarded several Federation contracts that are being investigated. According to a document that relates everything seized, these devices would be the property not only of Rubiales, but also of another of those investigated, Francisco Javier Martinknown as ‘Nene’ and a personal friend of Rubiales.
Rodrigo understands that by examining their content it is possible to obtain information that is “useful to the investigation” and that allows “to clarify all of the illicit actions committed by those investigated.”
For this reason, it is understood that the measure requested by the agents “is considered appropriate and useful in the course of the investigation of the case, since it can obtain, with it, relevant data for the complete clarification of the facts since It is a crime of an economic nature“.
However, it clarifies that the uploading and viewing of the content of these devices must be limited to “communications that may be related to both the people and the companies investigated in the facts.”
Registration in the Dominican Republic
It should be remembered that it was at the beginning of the month when agents from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard searched the accommodation in the Dominican Republic. in the framework of the investigation for alleged corruption during the period in which he was president of the RFEF.
Previously, on March 22, Rodrigo released his external legal advisor, Tomás González Cueto, and Ángel González Segura, related to the company he He carried out works at the La Cartuja stadium in Seville.
Both were arrested by the Civil Guard within the framework of the investigation for alleged crimes associated with corruption in business, unfair administration and money laundering between 2018 and 2023when Rubiales was in charge of the RFEF.
In another order, the judge addresses the request of González Cueto’s defense to proceed to purge communications with existing clients on your mobile phone and that are covered by professional secrecy.
