The Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office submitted a person’s ‘Negreira case’ complaint at Barcelona’s No. 1 Investigation Court this Friday. allegations of continuing corruption and unfair management crimes against individuals and included the ex-president of Barça Sandro Rosell. Also added crime of lying. The prosecution’s case is against FC Barcelona as a legal entity, former referee José María Enríquez Negreira, former Barça president Josep Maria Bartomeu and the club’s former directors Oscar Grau and Albert Soler.

Sandro Rosell was included in the complaint, who would give instructions. Education Court No. 1 in BarcelonaGiven that Barça’s payments to Negreira during his tenure have not yet expired. For this reason, the scope of the investigation was expanded according to the sources referenced by this newspaper. Other former presidents, for example Joan Gaspart and Joan Laporta will testify as a witness in principle.

The complaint states that Barça, through Rosell and Bartomeu, reached and maintains an “absolutely confidential” verbal agreement with the accused Negreira, thereby in his capacity as vice-chairman of the Committee of Technical Arbitrators (CTA) and “for money”, acting in favor of the club in the decision of the referees in the matches and in the “results of the competitions”. It states that this committee is the committee that appoints the referees for each match of official Spanish competitions at the provincial and professional level, and that this body is also responsible for evaluating promotions and relegations – in which the accused also participates. category of referees and recommendations of international referee candidates.

fake invoices

For this work, Negreira arranged through his companies invoices submitted for payment to FC Barcelona, “without responding to any judgment or actual advisory service”continues to prosecute. The prosecution considers that it has not been proven that the son of the former head of arbitration was involved in this conspiracy. The complaint highlights that the invoices submitted by Negreira’s firm in an inspection by the Tax Office “lost the presumption of validity” despite proving effective payment when Treasury officials, after examining them, concluded that they were fictitious.

Barça’s payments to Negreira During his vice presidency at the CTA from 2001 to 2018, their billing amounts have exceeded 7.3 million euros by history. “This was a real fee that was not stipulated in the club’s charter or approved by the general meeting, so it lacked a title to justify it. In short, such perceptions had no legal or legal basis,” the prosecution said. But the prosecution limits the newspaper to be investigated: from 2014 to 2018, when the board of directors headed by Bartomeu stopped paying.

millions of euros

The complaint was made during this period by FC Barcelona. a total of 2.9 million euros to the former manager’s companies arbitrator Funds were withdrawn and cashed in bearer checks, “mostly” by people Negreira trusted, “the final destination of the withdrawals is unknown.” The former leader was relieved of the CTA’s vice presidency in May 2018, so Barça ended all payouts. Subsequently, in February 2019, the former arbitration leader criticizes the end of the relationship in a bureau fax sent to the Barça club presidency, demanding a “fair settlement” for both parties and warning him of the consequences. from not doing.

Allegedly, the facts constitute a crime of corruption among individuals in the field of sports, which the prosecutor’s office accuses. Negreira, Rosell, Bartomeu, Grau, Soler and FC Barcelona, as a legal person. The crime of unfair management is also attributed to the former president and former managers of the club. The alleged lie is attributed only to Negreira, Grau, Soler and Bartomeu.