Spanish police arrested the resigning Barcelona club president Josep Maria Bartomeu, and 3 senior club officials, after a raid on Monday morning that included the headquarters of the Catalan club.
Today, Monday, a police spokesman said that security forces in Catalonia raided Barcelona club offices and arrested a number of people, but he did not disclose the number of detainees or their names.
The Spanish newspaper MARCA stated that the arrests may be linked to the Parsagit scandal, as it was revealed a year ago that Bartomeu had contracted with companies to polish his image and launched campaigns on social media against some people and entities that were said to oppose the administration of the former president, for millions of dollars. From the financially troubled club's budget.
Radio Cadena Ser and Radio Catalonia reported, in urgent news, that Bartomeu and his former advisor Jaume Masfriere, the club's chief executive, Oscar Grau, and Roman Gómez Ponte, head of the club's legal services, have been arrested.
She said that the arrests were preceded by the Spanish police searching the administrative offices at the club's headquarters since early morning, without disclosing any information about the case that comes days before the elections for a new board of directors for the club.
Bartomeu was forced to resign at the end of last October, after a series of administrative and financial problems against the backdrop of the scandal that had unfolded, as well as the technical crisis that followed the historic 2-8 defeat by Bayern Munich in the European Champions League, and Messi's demand to leave the Catalan club.