Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué is being questioned by a judge on Friday as part of judicial probe into the business deal that led to the Spanish Super Cup being hosted in Saudi Arabia.
Former Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué is being questioned by a judge on Friday as part of a judicial probe into the business deal that led to the Spanish Super Cup being hosted in Saudi Arabia.
The probe is examining suspicions of corruption and money laundering in a lucrative move made by Luis Rubiales, the former Spanish football federation president, in 2019.
The Madrid-based court has said that the federation and Saudi Arabia signed contracts in 2019 and 2020 to seal a 10-year agreement to stage the mini-football tournament in the Middle Eastern nation for 40 million euros ($43 million) a year. Another 4 million euros a year was to be paid as a commission to Piqué’s sports entertainment company Kosmos while Piqué was still playing for Barcelona and participating in the Super Cup.