The long-term president of Deportivo La Coruna, Augusto Cesar Lendoiro, has suggested match-fixing is widespread in La Liga while denying his own club is involved.
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Lendoiro, president of the Galician club since 1988, told reporters at a Europa Press event in Madrid on Thursday a host of decisive games towards the end of the season had been thrown as a matter of course.
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"Almost all the final matches of the season have been fixed in one way or another," Lendoiro said.
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He blamed Depor's relegation in 2010-11 on match- fixing and said it was widely known that clubs were being paid to throw games to help others avoid the drop to the second division.
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"Let all soccer fans be absolutely clear, Deportivo has never taken part - I will put my neck on the line for the players and the board of directors - in this kind of match-fixing," Lendoiro added.
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Corruption is firmly entrenched across the political, business and sporting spheres in Spain and it has long been suspected that money changes hands between soccer clubs in the final weeks of the La Liga campaign.