The judge extends the status of investigation to the president and all members of the board of his first term in the cub.
Problems at FC Barcelona 10 days before the Classic with Real Madrid: Joan Laporta, president of the entity, has been accused of bribery in the ‘Negreira case’.
The news shakes Can Barça just over a week after hosting the white team in the team’s most important match at the start of the campaign, with the judge of the Negreira case having decided to extend Laporta’s status as an investigator.and also to all members of the Board of Directors during his first term for the payments to the former vice-president of the Technical Commission of Referees, Enríquez Negreira, and his son.
Sustained crime of bribery, corruption in sports, a persistent crime of dishonest administration and falsification of commercial documents are some of the charges against him. In addition, the same status of investigation is attributed to all the people initially reported by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, such as the Negreira family, former presidents Josep María Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell and former directors Óscar Grau and Albert Soler.
Joaquín Aguirre, head of the investigative court number 1 of Barcelona, has included Joan Laporta among the suspects in this new order, despite the fact that the Public Prosecution Service had not initially included him knowing that the possible crimes committed during his first term would have already expired. Judge Aguirre disagrees with this new text because he believes that the criminal consequences allow him to indict the text because it is a continuing crime of bribery.
The magistrate reaffirms that the former vice president of the CTA had “a very wide sphere of influence,” as he was second in echelon of that group. And he adds: “By logical deduction, FC Barcelona’s payments satisfied the interests of the club, given their duration and annual increase. It is also inferred that the payments produced the arbitrage effects desired by Barcelona, in such a way that there must have been inequality of treatment with other teams and consequent systemic corruption in Spanish arbitration as a whole, which is not the is the case. That doesn’t mean all referees were corrupt, but a group of them were.”
Source: Goal