Negreira threatened Barcelona by burofax: "If there is no agreement, all the irregularities will come out"
Negreira case The dangers of criminal proceedings, the panic of Spanish football and the fears of the Government of Sánchez
Referees Negreira received 6,659,488 euros from Barça since 2001
Javier Tebas
wanted to make it very clear.
The president of
La Liga
, in the presentation of the day of the Genuine League that will be played this weekend at the Ciudad Deportiva Dani Jarque, stressed that, from an administrative point of view, the Enríquez Negreira
case
cannot have consequences for the Barça to be prescribed.
However, he did slip that the
criminal proceeding
could also have sporting consequences for the Barça club, although he avoided specifying them in any case.
And he recalled that, in criminal matters, the attempt to influence does not have to be effective.
"It would be a crime of risk.
Just for the mere fact of trying, there is already a sentence
," he said.
Scandal
Sports.
EL MUNDO accesses Barcelona's invoices to Negreira: 33 payments in two years for 1,685,142 euros
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EL MUNDO accesses Barcelona's invoices to Negreira: 33 payments in two years for 1,685,142 euros
Soccer.
Negreira threatened Barcelona by burofax: "If there is no agreement, all the irregularities will come out"
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Negreira threatened Barcelona by burofax: "If there is no agreement, all the irregularities will come out"
"The fact that there are no disciplinary files does not mean that there cannot be consequences at the sporting level, although I am not going to go into that.
The issue of a possible conviction in the criminal field is very open
," said the president of La Liga.
"The facts are not prescribed in the field of criminal law. From La Liga we have often been very active in the face of
possible signs of sports fraud,
such as the Osasuna case, in which there have been convictions of two players and several managers, in which the Federation, by the way, has not been present. We were also very active in the case of Levante-Zaragoza, in which the players were acquitted, the case of SD Huesca and others," he stressed.
"I think
they are payments with concepts and amounts that are not clear
. I don't know if they will have affected the outcome of the matches or not, but, as president of La Liga, I don't like it and we have to investigate it," he insisted.
"The Prosecutor's Office does not investigate because they have thrown an apple. It is something that comes from the Tax Agency and they have already called Josep Maria Bartomeu, Albert Soler and Oscar Grau
to testify
, as far as I know. Another thing is the media noise, there is not I go in. In the background,
there is no conspiracy from Madrid, from the press or from anyone
. The Prosecutor's Office is investigating an issue, which, after what we have seen, like the burofax, should be investigated," he added.
Even, as a result of one of the questions, he conceded the possibility that the Barça managers had been victims of a scam.
Of course, with nuances.
"It could be. I've written a book about fixing in sport and I've seen everything, like people who got paid from the two clubs. And of course, they always won. I wouldn't be surprised if Barcelona were in that belief, it will have to be clarified, but we are all older, and with so many years, it would be surprising", he pointed out.
"If Barcelona has been cheated, then Mr.
Negreira
should be sentenced. If it is the case that the directors of Barça or even the club, as a legal person, may also be guilty, that will have to be resolved," said the president of The league.
"I believe those referees who say that Enríquez Negreira was only fulfilling a testimonial function. In this case, that would reinforce the version that he was selling smoke and that the naive Barça managers fell for it. Be that as it may, this does a lot of damage to Spanish football ", he reiterated.
"I have not seen strange matches, but I can also say that in rigged matches that have been investigated we never saw anything strange. With so much television, it is complicated. The Moggi
case was not due to the decisions of the referees
, there was condemnation because the decision was influenced decision of which referees there were for each game, something that is also prohibited in Spain. That does not mean that there are no criminal behaviors. Just trying it is already a crime. It is not even necessary for the act of influencing to occur, "recalled Tebas.
"First, we are going to see if the Prosecutor's Office considers that there is a crime or not. We are going to wait. And if there are complaints, we will appear as a private prosecution. Let's not speculate,
because
the only thing we do is create uncertainty. I did not want to talk about sports sanctions because that would harm the Competition and also Barcelona and its environment", stressed the president of the League, who also recalled the peculiarity of the Barcelona case.
"There are clubs that have advisers on the subject of referees, but not who are active, as in the case of Enríquez Negreira. They are usually former referees. If that were the case, if I knew something similar, I would have intervened, whatever the club was, " added.
Thebes also addressed the case of
Gavi
, assuring that they will oppose the very precautionary measure that allows him to play as a first-team footballer, but that this will not prevent him from continuing to play in the competition.
Simply, he would have to do it with a file from the subsidiary.
"We don't have a mania for Barcelona, far from it," he settled.
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