Spanish publication El Debate had exclusive access to a report containing an analysis of the real estate assets of the referees Carlos Clos Gomez, Santiago Jaime Latre, Alejandro Hernandez Hernandez and Jose Sanchez Martinez. The 55-page document attaches photographs of the properties of the four elite referees. It also details the way in which they were paid, most of them with cash. At this time, it has not been decided whether to incorporate this document into the legal case in which the millionaire payments to the former vice-president of the Referees Committee, Jose Enriquez Negreira, are being investigated.
Clos Gomez, former referee, who is now responsible for the VAR in Spain, has seven properties valued, in total, at more than one million euros. The first of these properties is an 813-square-meter villa in Pinseque (Zaragoza) purchased with cash in 2007. In 2013, four purchases were registered: a house in Moncofar (Castellon), two parking spaces and a storage room, also paid cash. Three years later, the acquisition of two houses and a storage room in Zaragoza was registered. Finally, Clos Gomez purchased a house with parking and storage room in Villanueva del Pardillo (Madrid) for which he did request a mortgage. This property has an area of 147 square meters.
The real estate of Santiago Jaime, a telecommunications engineer and Army captain on leave of absence, is detailed below. He has a total of seven real estate properties in his name, all of them paid cash, mostly acquired in 2020. The purchases began on January 24 of that year with a 152-square-meter apartment. It is located in a recently built luxury urbanization in Madrid, near the Atocha station, valued at 750,000 euros. That same day, three parking spaces and two storage rooms were also purchased. Ten days later, this referee purchased another 209-square-meter apartment in Madrid, valued at almost one million euros, also with cash. In 2015, he purchased a third home in the capital, also close to the train station, as well as a garage space and a storage room. In total, a real estate asset of 1.8 million euros.
The third referee is Alejandro Hernandez, who made his debut in the first division in 2012 and in just two years became international. On 2 April 2016, he refereed his first El Clasico between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, repeating it five times. Hernandez's real estate properties were acquired between 2019 and 2021. The first of them was a 190-square-meter house with parking and storage room in Las Rozas (Madrid). From there, he acquired several other properties, all of them with cash, like the rest of his colleagues: a house in Arrecife (Las Palmas) with a garage and storage room and a third house in Yaiza (Lanzarote) next to the National Parque Timanfaya. On 7 February 2022, he purchased another parking space in Las Rozas. The report values the assets of this referee at more than one million euros.
The fourth match official, Jose Sanchez Martinez, took over from Hernandez Hernandez to referee the El Clasico four times. He has led matches in the first division since the 2015-16 season and has been international since 2017. His properties are a 164-square-meter house in Murcia valued at 650,000 euros, purchased in 2019 along with two parking spaces and a storage room. At the end of 2022, he purchased a third garage space, also in Murcia. All these properties, as it appears in the report, were purchased without any bank loans.
Source: El Debate
