Three months ago, on Friday, February 21, the then members of the Barcelona board of directors met at a restaurant in Sant Joan Despí. Four days ago, Cadena Ser had unveiled the scandal that would end up being baptized as Barçagate . Emili Rousaud, who was institutional vice president and appointed as the heir to the easy chair a month earlier, asked President Josep Maria Bartomeu for an external audit to clarify responsibilities.
At that meeting, Rousaud himself led an internal movement to force an electoral advance. It failed. Bartomeu forced his departure, also that of the rest of the voices critical of his management , and remodeled his board to close all waterways and to conclude his term in 2021. Rousaud ended up resigning on Good Friday along with five other managers (Enrique Tombas, Silvio Elías, Josep Pont, Maria Teixidor and Jordi Calsamiglia). At the same time, he denounced corrupt practices in the entity ("someone has reached into the box") . Of the audit, in charge of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), in any case, nothing is yet known. In Barcelona they say they still wait for their conclusions. The company asked for more time due to the Alarm Status.
On Monday, February 17, Cadena Ser revealed that the club had allocated 990,000 euros in contracts to various companies linked to the company I3 Ventures , a company hired to monitor social networks, and also linked to managing fake accounts from those who attacked multiple personalities of Barcelona, including their own footballers. Rousaud maintained that this amount was broken into invoices always less than 200,000 euros (specifically, 198,000 euros) in order to circumvent the club's security mechanisms .
"Public and complete dissemination"
Rousaud, against whom Barcelona filed a complaint, today sent a letter to President Bartomeu in which he requested not only information regarding the current status of the audit, but the "full and public dissemination" of said report .
"Futbol Club Barcelona has control and compliance bodies that were created to ensure transparency in management. One of the main reasons for this investigation is to find out why this contract did not go through these transparency mechanisms," said the former Barça vice president. in his missive. The club, meanwhile, awaits.
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