This Thursday, the Civil Guard is carrying out an entry and search of the offices of the Referees’ Technical Committee at the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) with the aim of finding documents of the ‘Negreira case’ regarding allegations of corruption involving the FC. The culprits include Barcelona and former presidents Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell. One of the targets of this operation was the Barcelona judge’s admission. Joaquin Aguirre, It is to collect information to clarify whether José María Enriquez Negreira, the former vice president of the referee board, preferred the Barça club when selecting the referees for his matches. The robe opened a new, separate room to carry out this operation, and it was declared secret.

Investigators consider it necessary, for example, to examine the minutes of technical committee meetings attended by the now-accused former referee leader, who collected approximately seven million euros over 18 years through one of his companies or his son. . Judge Aguirre had announced at the beginning of September that, at the request of one of the accused, he would request from the Spanish Football Federation the surveys administered by the committee to the professionals of the arbitration group and their answers. messages and communication of the committee (even WhatsApp) with Enríquez Negreira and his son.

In one of his last decisions, the judge argues that there may be “systematic corruption” in the Technical Referee Board and says “advancing the hypothesis regarding possible impact“It was possible for the former referee to train on his peers “directly or through his son”. In the judge’s understanding, the Barça club could have paid “one of the vice presidents of the Technical Referee Committee to design a certain type of arbitration”.

Offer to referees

In another turn, the man reminded that the Referees Technical Committee is a body. “responsible for technically classifying referees based on relevant assessments and to propose to the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation the promotion and relegation of referees, as well as “to propose international referees and to appoint delegate-correspondents tasked with observing and rating the actions of referees”, where appropriate, “corrective index”, which “do not meet the known criteria”.

Judge refuses Enriquez Negreira to play a “simply representative” function In their decision, they argued that the person under investigation recognized the Tax Office audit, which meets every 15 days in Madrid, for the purpose of “examining and scoring the reports given by the referees after each match” and that “the referee could stand up” according to the result. category.”