• Bartomeu surrounds himself with the faithful and takes criminal action against Rousaud

Barcelona is experiencing a regression to its darkest times. Those in which the directives on duty and that unclassifiable entity called environment rivaled in grotesque and sordid episodes.

Emili Rousaud i Parés, who until just a few weeks was only known for being the founder and CEO of Factorenergía despite having served on the Barcelona board since 2015, has gone from extreme discretion to being part of the special image of Barça in record time. First, because he was the one who should lead the continuation candidacy for the Barça chair. Later, for becoming the great scourge of President Josep Maria Bartomeu . His accusations are of such caliber that it is difficult to imagine a path that does not have an outcome in court.

Rousaud, after Bartomeu pushed him to resign despite having been promoted to vice president and appointed as heir to the throne last January, has set out to demonstrate that there is a plot of corruption in the club around the so-called Barçagate . That is, the scandal of the fake accounts.

After announcing Bartomeu's new board of adulterers take criminal action against Rousaud after Rousaud denounced that "someone" in Barcelona had reached "his hand into the box", the energy businessman counterattacked. Not only was he reaffirmed his accusations, but he also warned the leaders of the Catalan club that they could incur "false denunciation".

Tax haven

In a statement sent to the media, Rousaud pulled forceful: " The existence of corruption in the club is evident in the fact already demonstrated that contracts between related companies have been crumbled in order to avoid internal controls." It refers to chopping on invoices of less than 200,000 euros for a total payment of around one million. An amount that Rousaud understands as outside the market for what should be a simple monitoring of activity on the networks.

The former vice president, who resigned along with five other executives last Holy Thursday, also assured that one of the companies linked to I3 Ventures, the origin of the scandal, is "based in a tax haven that violates the law of prevention of money laundering . "

"The categorical affirmations that I have made on this matter are absolutely true and demonstrable; the opinions that I have expressed are absolutely well-founded," insists Rousaud, who maintains that, before his resignation, he had already made the club aware of "these irregularities . "

In fact, Rousaud was the one who led the riot in that informal meeting of the board in a restaurant in Sant Joan Despí in which a large group of managers demanded that Bartomeu not finish his mandate and move the elections forward. That ended, however, with a block resignation of six executives and a reorganization of government by Bartomeu to ensure a team of faithful.

Waiting for Price Waterhouse Coopers to complete its audit on the case and for Barcelona to decide to assume or refine responsibilities, Rousaud has created a website (www.femnetfcb.cat) to collect support from partners and fans.

Their fight continues.

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