MADRID — The Spanish government's disciplinary committee for sports (TAD) has suspended tennis federation (RFET) president Jose Luis Escanuela for one month for failing to collaborate in a probe into the organisation's finances.
Spain's sports council (CSD) says it is attempting to track down what happened to at least 700,000 euros ($783,300) that the federation, which lists Transparency International as one of its sponsors, paid out in transactions linked to the Spanish Tennis Foundation and the Spanish Tennis Observatory.
The Foundation was set up by the RFET to help promote tennis in Spain, while the Observatory is a joint project with a university in Seville to study the sport.