Police arrest Spanish football federation president

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The Spanish Football Federation president, Angel Maria Villar, was captured alongside his child and two more alliance officials in a hostile to defilement examination on Tuesday.

Villar, who is likewise FIFA's senior VP and a UEFA VP, was associated with having organized matches for Spain that prompted business bargains that profited his child, said the workplace of the state prosecutor responsible for against defilement.

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The state prosecutor and Spanish police said Villar, his child Gorka Villar, and two other football authorities were kept while strikes were completed at the league central command and different properties.

Two formally dressed policemen watched the passageway to the alliance as staff went all through the workplaces close to the preparation justification for Spain's national groups in Las Rozas, simply outside Madrid.

The other two men who were captured were Juan Padron, the organization's VP of financial undertakings who is additionally the leader of the provincial alliance for Tenerife, and Ramon Hernandez, the secretary of that local league.

The four men were captured on charges of disgraceful administration, misappropriation of assets, debasement and adulterating archives as a major aspect of a test into the funds of the leagues.

"We have observed the media reports concerning the circumstance of Mr Villar Llona," FIFA said in an announcement. "As the issue is by all accounts connected to inside issues of the Spanish Football Association, for the present, we sympathetically allude you to them for additionally subtle elements."

As a feature of an operation called "Soule", police said they struck the national organization's base camp, the workplaces of the local football league on the island of Tenerife, and "home office of organizations and a few private homes connected to the captured people".

Police began the test in mid 2016 after a grumbling was made by Spain's Higher Council of Sport, the administration's games expert.

The test drove the express prosecutor's office to presume that Angel Maria Villar "could have masterminded matches of the Spanish national group with other national groups, along these lines picking up consequently contracts for administrations and different business wanders in advantage of his child".

The prosecutor's office said they speculate that Padron and the Tenerife secretary "supported the contracting of business" for their own advantage.

Inigo Mendez de Vigo, Spain's priest of instruction, culture and game, told national TV minutes after the assaults that "in Spain, the laws are implemented, the laws are the same for all, and no one, no one is exempt from the rules that everyone else follows".

Calls made by The Associated Press to the Spanish and Tenerife alliances went unanswered.

UEFA said in an announcement it was "mindful of the reports with respect to Mr Villar Llona. We have no remark to set aside a few minutes." The Higher Council of Sport said it will "utilize everything in its way to guarantee that rivalries are not influenced" by the captures.

A previous expert football player, the 67-year-old Villar has been the leader of Spain's football league since 1988, managing its national group's triumphs in the 2010 World Cup and the 2008 and 2012 European Championships.

Villar has likewise been at the core of FIFA and UEFA legislative issues since the 1990s, and has worked intimately with a few universal football pioneers who have since been prosecuted by the US Department of Justice.

His child, Gorka, worked as of late for South American body CONMEBOL as lawful executive then as the CEO-like chief general for three presidents who were involved in the US government examination. Gorka Villar left CONMEBOL in July 2016.

Heavenly attendant Maria Villar was an intense midfielder for Athletic Bilbao and Spain before resigning to fill in as a legal counselor and football head. He was chosen to the UEFA official board of trustees 25 years back, and to FIFA's decision advisory group 19 years prior. He has additionally been a compelling figure in the legitimate and officials boards of trustees of the two associations.

In the 2018 and 2022 World Cup offering challenges, Angel Maria Villar drove the Spain-Portugal offer which the FIFA morals board of trustees quickly examined in 2010 for professedly orchestrating a voting agreement including South American voters to exchange bolster with Qatar's offered. Russia won the 2018 challenge.

Villar's direct in an ensuing more extensive test of the offers was singled out in a report by then-FIFA morals prosecutor Michael Garcia.

"He (Villar) was not willing to examine the certainties and conditions of the case," Garcia wrote in a 2014 report that was distributed a month ago. "Also, his tone and way were profoundly aggravating, as the sound recording of the meeting ... makes obvious."

Progressively observed as a polarizing figure with authority desire, Villar ruled against attempting to succeed Michel Platini as UEFA president a year ago.

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