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. Rubiales was in the Dominican Republic on March 21 when raids were conducted on an apartment belonging to him in Granada -- in addition to the RFEF's headquarters in Madrid -- but he had pledged to return to Spain on his pre-booked flight on April 6. However, he voluntarily returned to his homeland early on Wednesday, where police were waiting to question him at Madrid-Barajas airport when he landed.
Almost an hour after arriving in the Spanish capital, Rubiales was taken into custody for further questioning by the police's 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. Rubiales has denied any wrongdoing in 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 'the product of my work and savings.'
