judicial coup Joan Laporta with Judge Joaquín AguirreInvestigating the Negreira case regarding millionaire payments Barcelona Football Club To the former vice president of the Referee Technical Committee, José María Enriquez Negreira 18 years. The judge not only once again rejected Barça’s appearance as an accusation, but also accused Laporta of trying to incriminate the club’s former presidents. Sandro Rosell And Josep Maria Batromeu He did the same in his first term. So he paid the former arbitration leader. However, he notes that the current leader of the Catalan club has avoided being charged and therefore being investigated due to the statute of limitations for the crime.
The decision, which was accessed by El Periódico de Catalunya from the Prensa Ibérica group, states that the letter in which Barça requested to make the accusation may be considered officially valid, but “it seriously violates the rules of ethics.” The statement stated that Laporta has not been accused of committing any crime for the time being, “not for reasons related to the unlawfulness of the actions he committed in his first phase as president of Barcelona, but also because of the application of the rules of criminal limitation”.
Behaves the same as his successors
Because? During Laporta’s time, “payments were also made to Enríquez Negreira’s family” through companies they allegedly used as intermediaries. Therefore he adds: “Laporta’s stance on this issue is the same The judge notes that Barcelona’s current president is the one who appointed “directly or through lower-ranking persons the individuals who made up the legal team representing Barcelona” in the case. “Consequently, he emphasizes, “It is against all ethics for people who committed the same actions of the presidents after him to try to take part in the case by making specific accusations in accordance with Barcelona’s legal document, as if it were an abstract entity with its own “I” that is alien to the club’s managers.”
In other words, it is “ethically unacceptable” for Laporta to accuse President Rosell and Bartomeu of disloyal management.The judge claims there are numerous indications that “Laporta” committed the same actions as subsequent presidents. He insists that these facts are simply that Barcelona paid Enríquez Negreira a large sum of money “because he was one of the vice-presidents of the Technical Referee Committee of the Royal Spanish Football Federation”.
The judge states that when looking at the process as a whole, “there is a medial competition between the crime of unfair administration and the crime of taking money from the club, which amounts to sports corruption or bribery.” The comment was made on the grounds that “the money was removed from the club’s coffers for the purpose of committing another crime (corruption or bribery in sports).”