Malaga judge issues European arrest and prison order for Al-Thani family | OneFootball

Málaga’s Investigating Court number 14 has issued a European arrest warrant and ordered the committal to prison of Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani and his sons over alleged financial offences at Málaga CF.

According to El Periódico Mediterráneo, the move follows requests from the Public Prosecutor and the Provincial Court, and targets Nayef, Naser and Rakan Al Thani alongside the club’s majority shareholder.

Presiding judge María de los Ángeles Ruiz González argued the quartet have sought to evade justice, failed to appoint legal representation and ignored the contact emails they themselves supplied during the long-running case.

They do not appear to reside at the Doha addresses provided, with police having previously located them in Munich. No contact address was given in Italy, illustrating an itinerant pattern that hampers procedural notifications.

The judge’s aim is to secure the progress of proceedings so the dispute can conclude. The family have not acknowledged receipt. Any appeal would not halt the Europe-wide arrest and custody order.

The warrant can be executed across the 29 Schengen states and in countries that hold extradition treaties with Spain.

The United Arab Emirates and Qatar have no extradition agreement with Spain, so the European arrest warrant would carry no effect there.

The alert will also be entered into the SIRENE office and Interpol, and notified to the Ministry of Justice and CENCI, with provisional detention to be sought outside the EU for extradition.

Source: El Periódico Mediterráneo