Calderon in deep water as Real Madrid probe vote-fixing claims

MADRID: Real Madrid will open a probe into press reports that club president Ramon Calderon manipulated last month's stormy annual general assembly vote in order to get its fiscal accounts for 2008 and 2009 approved.

"We have decided to investigate the matter and we have asked the club's commission for social discipline to confirm these facts," the defending Spanish champion's director for members, Luis Barcena, told a news conference on Tuesday.

"In the case that any club members are found to be implicated, they will immediately be expelled from the club," he added.