Fútbol Club Barcelona paid

1.4 million

euros to the company DASNIL 95 SL, owned by former referee

José María Enríquez Negreira

, who was vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees of the Royal Spanish Football Federation from

1994

to 2018. According to reports the program

Qué t'hi jugues of SER Catalunya

, the payments by the Barça club would have been made during the last three years of his mandate.

Enríquez Negreira was the sole partner of the company DASNIL 95 SL, and he invoiced Barça for 532,728.02 euros in 2016;

541,752 euros in 2017, and 318,200 euros in 2018

under the concept of "technical advice".

According to the report of the Tax Agency

"

the FCB (sic) wanted

to make sure that arbitration decisions were not made against it

, that is, 'that everything was neutral'".

Enríquez Negreira was born in Barcelona in 1945 and was

a First Division referee for 13 seasons

, between 1977 and 1992. After his retirement he ended up presiding over the Catalan College of Referees, until two years later Victoria Sánchez Arminio signed him as right-hand man, as vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees.

The former referee has not been able to provide any documentation for the work carried out, since, as he assured

Cadena SER,

it consisted of verbal advice on how the players should behave before a referee, among other issues.

Earlier, before the Prosecutor's Office, Enríquez Negreira denied that there had been favorable treatment for the Catalan team because of those payments.

After hearing the news, FC Barcelona has issued a statement in which it acknowledges the facts: "FC Barcelona hired the services of an external technical consultant in the past, who supplied, in video format, technical reports referring to players in the 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.

Currently, this type of outsourced services falls to a professional assigned to the Soccer Area".

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