Barcelona has invoices with the company of the vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees since 2001

Barcelona paid for at least 17 years for "technical" reports to a company owned by the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees

, and in which his son

served as administrator.

That is what the former president of the Barça club,

, maintains for EL MUNDO, after Cadena Ser advanced this Tuesday the investigation opened by the Barcelona Prosecutor's Office against this company as a result of a series of tax irregularities detected by the Tax Agency between 2016 and 2018. In that time interval, the company DASNIL 95 SL collected 1,685,142.8 euros from Barcelona.

As this newspaper has been able to learn, the proceedings, which were extended last October 2022, were opened after a complaint from an individual and continue their course.

The Prosecutor's Office, for now, only formally investigates the DASNIL 95 company, without specifying what type of crimes.

«The first invoice that appears in the club is from 2001, with

as president.

When

won the elections in 2003, this service already existed (the current president led the club in its first stage until 2010, when

took over).

They told me that there are no invoices prior to 2001. There was no reason to keep them.

But they have told me that this comes from the time of the presidency of

», Bartomeu maintains to this newspaper.

And Gaspart, who was vice president of Núñez for 22 years (1978-2000) to later occupy the chair between July 2000 and February 2003, says he is unaware of the matter.

“I have absolutely no knowledge of anything wrong being done either in my time or in the past.

Yes, reports on players were commissioned.

I do not know what company and who was the owner.

Barça, Madrid and all the teams in the world ask for them.

But I strongly deny that any attempt has ever been made to coerce an arbitrator.

And if we had done it, we would have been League champions forever, "Gaspart replies to EL MUNDO.

"Negreira did not paint anything"

According to Bartomeu, the dialogue during his time was always done with Javier Enríquez, the son of the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees.

«I met Javier in 2015. He was the one who made the reports.

But who dealt with him was the sports area.

I had no meetings with the son or the father.

It was not a matter of the presidency or managers.

But the physical reports exist.

In addition, there are videos that Javier himself made.

He took the matches and analyzed the plays where there was some arbitration success or error, "continues Bartomeu, who denies that he dealt with Enríquez Negreira on issues related to arbitration:" I saw Negreira many times in the Spanish Federation (the former First Division referee between 1977 and 1992 he was vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees from 1994 to 2018).

But I never spoke anything with him about arbitrations.

In fact, I have never spoken to any arbitrator about arbitration matters.

Forbidden!

In addition, I think that Negreira did not paint anything ».

Bartomeu and other former Barcelona executives have testified before the Prosecutor's Office.

Enríquez Negreira and his son, who is listed as sole administrator of the company between 2004 and 2019, have also done so. Although Javier Enríquez provided technical reports, his father declared that they were communicated verbally.

Something that Bartomeu himself denies: «The son contributed the work that he did, but the father said that they were paid 'for doing nothing'.

I do not know why.

And those reports are sure to be in the club.

Or, if not, in Javier Enríquez's office or in the Prosecutor's Office ».

In June 2018, Barcelona paid the last invoice to DASNIL 95. The interruption of the commercial relationship coincided with the departure of Enríquez Negreira from the Technical Committee of Referees.

«

, who was our sports director, and

[who was CEO of the Barça club] decided to reduce some expenses in the sports area.

And this was one of them.

This external service was canceled so that it became internal.

It was done to save money", argues Bartomeu, who insists that this type of arbitration reports "are necessary and essential for all the big clubs".

"Everyone has them and it is normal," he abounds.

According to former executives of the entity, these reports could include behavior guidelines before the arbitrators.

Barcelona, ​​meanwhile, admitted yesterday the services contracted to an "external consultant" to provide, first, "technical reports referring to players in lower categories", and then "technical reports related to professional arbitration in order to complement information required by the coaching staff."

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