{"id":11538,"date":"2022-04-18T19:56:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=214858"},"modified":"2022-04-18T19:56:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:26:58","slug":"gerard-pique-accused-of-corruption-leaked-audios-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/gerard-pique-accused-of-corruption-leaked-audios-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Pique accused of corruption, leaked audios revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a sensational report from El Confidencial, star Barcelona defender Gerard Pique may be caught in a corruption scandal along with RFEF(Spanish FA) President Luis Rubiales. The leaked documents and audio suggest that Rubiales agreed to pay Pique about \u20ac6 million for the agreement, and tried to conceal the Bar\u00e7a defender\u2019s involvement in the contracts and records. Pique had supported Rubiales in completing an agreement for the Spanish Super Cup to be relocated to Saudi Arabia, which was completed in 2019. The leaked audio recording was posted by El Confidencial on Twitter.<\/p>\n<section class=\"xpa-switch-article\">\n<div class=\"news-paragraph text-1\">\n<p>A conversation from the leaked audio has Rubiales congratulating Pique for winning a recent game and confirming the deal in Saudi Arabia and also thanking him for his help.<\/p>\n<section class=\"xpa-switch-article\">\n<div class=\"news-paragraph text-1\">\n<p>From the leaked recording, Pique speaks to Rubiales about the financial details involved in doing the deal in Saudi Arabia. Pique also warned that if the deal is not completed from Rubiales\u2019s end there is a chance that might be used against him and he might be caught, but if he did go ahead with the deal he could show he was not doing anything ing wrong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"xpa-switch-article\">\n<div class=\"news-paragraph text-1\">\n<section class=\"xpa-switch-article\">\n<div class=\"news-paragraph text-1\">\n<p>Pique also said to Rubiales they have to get paid for their involvement in the deal and that he needed his support in doing so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/elconfidencial\/status\/1515933824412229639?s=20&t=wPd8BwK2OQ6Gr1JGZlhEsg<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\"Como el Madrid me va a decir que no, eso nos viene de puta madre para justificarnos de cara al futuro y decimos que es el estadio con m\u00e1s capacidad [el Camp Nou], que es el campe\u00f3n de Liga [el FC Barcelona]\u2026 Creo que legitimidad tenemos\" <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SupercopaFiles?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SupercopaFiles<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fC8aW4otOG\">https:\/\/t.co\/fC8aW4otOG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B5gTsakVYM\">pic.twitter.com\/B5gTsakVYM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 El Confidencial (@elconfidencial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elconfidencial\/status\/1515934844403994628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\"Como el Madrid me va a decir que no, eso nos viene de puta madre para justificarnos de cara al futuro y decimos que es el estadio con m\u00e1s capacidad [el Camp Nou], que es el campe\u00f3n de Liga [el FC Barcelona]\u2026 Creo que legitimidad tenemos\" <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SupercopaFiles?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SupercopaFiles<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fC8aW4otOG\">https:\/\/t.co\/fC8aW4otOG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B5gTsakVYM\">pic.twitter.com\/B5gTsakVYM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 El Confidencial (@elconfidencial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elconfidencial\/status\/1515934844403994628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">En medio de las negociaciones con Arabia Saud\u00ed, Rubiales envi\u00f3 a Piqu\u00e9 un documento en el que ya se hablaba de comisiones, pero las cifras no eran las que esperaba. \"Rubi, \u00e9l se est\u00e1 refiriendo no a que la comisi\u00f3n la pagu\u00e9is vosotros\" <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SupercopaFiles?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SupercopaFiles<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fC8aW4otOG\">https:\/\/t.co\/fC8aW4otOG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ePgRzXDT4f\">pic.twitter.com\/ePgRzXDT4f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 El Confidencial (@elconfidencial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elconfidencial\/status\/1515935053544628226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pique and Rubiales have yet to respond to the unexpected news. As more developments are awaited, serious consequences are expected from this circumstance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Pique accused of taking \u20ac6 million in Saudi Arabia-Super Cup deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":34008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[842,3106,814,699],"class_list":["post-11538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-corruption","tag-gerard-pique","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-spanish-football"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}