As we learn more details,
the lukewarmness of the Prosecutor's Office and the
absence of government leadership in the institutional response to the very serious scandal that compromises the credibility of Spanish football become
more disturbing .
There is more than enough evidence that Barça paid millionaire amounts to
number two
of the referees for more than two decades for obviously fictitious advice, something that for anyone with a minimum of common sense should constitute an i
An indication of the spurious will of the Barça club to undermine the cleanliness of the competition.
From different areas they try to impose improbable theses, such as that Enríquez Negreira lacked real influence and would have been, therefore, a kind of peddler who, nevertheless, was able to deceive Barça for 25 years, five different presidents and the Referees themselves, who received from his mouth the awards and punishments that determined his career and were accompanied by his son in a taxi to the Camp Nou.
Anyway.
Things are usually what they seem.
EL MUNDO published an enlightening document on Friday:
Enríquez Negreira's threatening burofax to Barça is the smoking gun of the case
.
In it she discovers his personality and his methods, but above all she recognizes "irregularities" that could have "serious consequences".
What others can he refer to than those related to arbitration, if in the same text he admits that he has "known and experienced them first hand"?
Today we reveal the emails that reveal Barça's surreptitious spirit: their desire to hide
.
The club kept the relationship with Negreira without a contract and later, when the Tax Agency demanded the documentation, it avoided informing him of that circumstance.
What was there to cover up?
what explanation do you have
Joan Laporta
to have triggered billing with Negreira?
Can you continue at the helm of a LaLiga club?
And above all:
What else is needed for the Public Prosecutor's Office to present a complaint and prosecute the investigations?
Only the judicial authority can exhaust the investigation to the last consequences and ensure that evidence is not destroyed to prove a possible crime of unfair administration or corruption between individuals, which is what would have occurred if Barça received any consideration in the form of arbitration favorable and should be the true objective if it is to remove any doubt that the competition was not adulterated.
An ethical commitment is especially expected from the institutions: Higher Sports Council (the Government, therefore), Federation, Technical Committee of Referees and LaLiga
.
The appeasement with which the scandal has been responded to, the unequivocal complacency for what Barça represents in Catalonia, are a terrible symptom
in a society that claims to be democratic and clean.
There is no possible impunity for cheaters.
If Barcelona is
more than a club
, in Spain football is more than a sport.
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