{"id":168372,"date":"2024-04-04T13:22:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/04\/police-arrest-kissing-fa-boss\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T13:22:07","slug":"police-arrest-kissing-fa-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/04\/police-arrest-kissing-fa-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest &#8216;Kissing&#8217; FA Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Luis Rubiales<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales was detained by police on Wednesday after returning to Spain as part of a corruption probe into the deal to move the Spanish Supercopa to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Rubiales was in the Dominican Republic on March 21 when raids were conducted on an apartment belonging to him in Granada \u2014 in addition to the RFEF\u2019s headquarters in Madrid \u2014 but he had pledged to return to Spain on his pre-booked flight on April 6.<\/p>\n<p>However, he voluntarily returned to his homeland early on Wednesday, where police were waiting to question him at Madrid-Barajas airport when he landed. He was released after questioning later the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Almost an hour after arriving in the Spanish capital, Rubiales was taken into custody for further questioning by the police\u2019s Central Operational Unit department (UCO), a source told ESPN, stressing that his arrest had not been ordered by the judge in charge of the case.<\/p>\n<p>Rubiales has denied any wrongdoing amid allegations that he personally benefitted from the deal to take the Supercopa to the Gulf nation, telling La Sexta in an interview due to be aired on Wednesday that his money is \u201cthe product of my work and savings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 agreement to move the competition away from Spain, which was brokered by Rubiales and former Barcelona defender Gerard Piqu\u00e9\u2019s company Kosmos, was for an initial three-year period and worth \u20ac120 million ($129.2m). 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