• Navas says privacy violated by 24 Costa Rican agents • Agents accused of trying to ‘check out’ Navas’s sisters • ‘I have instructed my lawyers to take legal action’

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Real Madrid’s goalkeeper Keylor Navas says he will take legal action after 24 Costa Rican government agents allegedly misused a database to access information about him and his sisters.

Navas was reacting after Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department announced 24 of its agents had been placed under investigation over the alleged misuse of an “information platform” to find out about the keeper’s personal life.

Navas said: “I feel outraged, my privacy and that of my family have been violated … I have asked my lawyers in Costa Rica to take the necessary legal action.”

Navas helped Costa Rica reach the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time this summer, and played his second game since joining Real on Wednesday – a 4-1 win at Cornella in the Copa del Rey.

The department’s director, Francisco Segura, said the activity had taken place between July and August across various offices, with one agent apparently trying to “check out” information on the player’s sisters.

“The agents only have the authority to access the platform when they are carrying out police investigations, making their actions at the very least serious infringements.”

He said there was no reason for agents to be investigating Navas, and the intrusions “had no possible justification”.