Ex-soccer chief Rubiales handed court summons on return to Spain, source says


FILE PHOTO: Former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation Luis Rubiales is pictured after leaving the high court in Madrid, Spain - September 15, 2023. REUTERS/Isabel Infantes/File Photo

MADRID (Reuters) -Luis Rubiales, the disgraced former Spanish soccer federation (RFEF) chief, was informed by police on his return to Spain on Wednesday that he was a suspect in a corruption probe and told to appear before a local court, a judicial source told Reuters.

Rubiales, who has denied any wrongdoing, arrived in Madrid on a flight from the Dominican Republic, where he had spent two months on what he described as a business trip.

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