Barcelona judge Joaquín Aguirre said the former vice president Referee Technical Committee (CTA), José María Enriquez Negreira, He was attributable and was therefore summoned to testify on 21 February. The magistrate made this decision after receiving the report of forensic experts who examined the former referee leader, who claimed in court that he had Alzheimer’s disease. Doctors confirmed that he was suffering from this disease, but stated in their report that this did not prevent him from appearing before the judge and testifying.
According to Tax Office documents, Enríquez Negreira is being investigated for 7.5 million euros received from FC Barcelona from 2001, when Joan Gaspart was in charge of the club, until 2018, when Josep Maria Bartomeu became president. Case ordered by Judge Aguirre. The magistrate considered that these payments were made “indicatively”, in response to the former referee’s position on the body that regulates arbitration in football. possibly to benefit barça. In the judicial process, the Barça club appears as a defendant, as well as former presidents Sandro Rosell, Josep Maria Bartomey and the current Joan Laporta, as well as two former managers of the organization, Enriquez Negreira and his son Javier Enríquez Romero. the being that perceives them in order to imitate them. They are being investigated for various crimes, including allegations of bribery and corruption in sports. The Barcelona Court is awaiting the resolution of many appeals filed by the defense authorities in this context.
Judge Joaquín Aguirre, tutor in the Negreira case regarding payments made by FC Barcelona to former referee leader José María Enríquez Negreira, continues to instruct that there may be “systemic corruption” in the Technical Referee Committee, according to an order he accepted. through” a request to perform certain procedures to “advance the hypothesis of its possible influence” on his counterparts.
Impatience
According to the judge and as stated in the verdict in which he accused Barça of alleged bribery, Enriquez Negreira “participated in the performance of public duties” also during his time with FC Barcelona. Hakim claims that Barça stopped paying him when he left his position as vice president of the technical committee. And the judge adds that the vice-chairman of the Technical Referee Committee “as a person exercising public duties must be impartial and treat all teams equally, which is therefore incompatible with the natural discharge of his duty.” The right to receive an annual bonus fee without a contract to support the referees who manage FC Barcelona and perform the monitoring function of the referees who are within the orbit of its authority.
In the officer’s opinion, Enriquez Negreira committed actions contrary to the duties inherent in his position “in oral or written reports” because it was “unacceptable” for the vice chairman of that committee to “advise on a particular matter.” The person who carries out such recommendations in response to the amounts paid to him annually by the First League team and the Barcelona club. The judicial decision states that the payments to the former arbitration leader and his son were “to carry out actions related to his position” due to his “influence” or “lineage” with other members of the technical committee. He will appoint referees as vice-presidents “depending on his rise or fall” or “due to his general influence”.