Last update 15 February, 2023 por Alberto Llopis
En el Barça they have become accustomed to being continuously at the center of controversy. In fact, in the last few hours the culé club has been immersed in a real scandal, of which the arbitral body is also a part.
As reported by Cadena SER and Diario AS, José Maria Enriquez Negreira declared, after an inspection by the Tax Agency, who made reports for the FC Barcelona about the collegiate that he himself directed, through his company DASNIL 95 SL.
In exchange for those reports, whose mission was to see if the Catalans were harmed or not by the referees, the Barcelona entity paid a total of 1.392.680,02 millions of euros. These amounts were divided into three years: 2016, 2017 y 2018. It's important pointing that, by then, negreira was the right hand of Sanchez Arminio as vice president of Technical Committee of Referees.
Now justice would be investigating an alleged crime of corruption between individuals.
The Barça pronounces on the controversy
After the scandal was uncovered, el FC Barcelona has issued the following statement:
Given the information broadcast today in the program Què t'hi jugues of Ser Catalunya, el FC Barcelona, aware of the facts that the Prosecutor's Office is investigating regarding payments made to external companies, wants to make it clear:
That FC Barcelona hired the services of an external technical consultant in the past, who supplied, in video format, technical reports referring to players of lower categories of the Spanish State for the technical secretariat of the Club.
Additionally, The relationship with the external provider itself was extended with technical reports related to professional arbitration in order to complement the information required by the coaching staff of the first team and the subsidiary, a common practice in professional football clubs.
At present, This type of outsourced services falls to a professional attached to the Soccer Area.
FC Barcelona regrets that this information appears precisely at the best sporting moment of this season.
FC Barcelona will take legal action against anyone who spoils the Club's image with possible insinuations against the entity's reputation that may arise as a result of this information..
Bartomeu stands out
Joseph Maria Bartomeu, president of FC Barcelona during the existence of these payments, He claims that he has nothing to do with it.. What his directive did was put an end to a contract that began at the end of Joan Laporta's first stage, points out. Other managers of the time Sandro Rosell point in the same direction.
Meanwhile, el propio John Laporta be quiet.