• 'Negreira Case' The Prosecutor's Office finalizes its complaint for the Barça commissions to the former 'number two' of the referees

  • 'Negreira Case' Negreira withdrew up to 20,000 euros a month in cash while collecting from Barcelona

The Barcelona Prosecutor's Office concluded its complaint on Tuesday

for the Negreira case

.

According to tax sources reported to EL MUNDO, the Public Ministry will attribute

the crimes of corruption in business and unfair administration

to Fútbol Club Barcelona as a legal entity .

The complaint, which has been sent today to the State Attorney General's Office to be approved, will also be filed against the former number two of the referees,

José María Enríquez Negreira

and the former president of the Barcelona Football Club,

Josep María Bartomeu

, among others.

Even so, there are other aspects that at this time have not been closed around it, such as, for example, whether or not criminal action will be brought against Negreira's son or if the crime of documentary falsification will be included in the complaint, sources indicate. prosecutors.

According to the investigations,

Enríquez Negreira received, between 2001 and 2018, 6,659,488 euros

through alleged arbitration advice provided to Fútbol Club Barcelona.

These payments were channeled through two instrumental companies controlled by Negreira, Dasnil 95 and Nilsad, who issued fictitious invoices to the Barça club for "technical video advice".

For its part, article 286.4 of the Criminal Code establishes that a crime of corruption in business will be committed by "managers, administrators, employees or collaborators of a sports entity, whatever its legal form, as well as athletes, referees or judges, with respect to those conducts whose purpose is to deliberately and fraudulently predetermine or alter the result of a test, meeting or sports competition of special economic or sports relevance.

At the end of February, the Barcelona Prosecutor's Office issued the decree concluding its investigation proceedings -initiated in May 2022 and extended in November of that same year- and since then the prosecutor in the case, Virginia Sánchez Prieto, has

been

working in the complaint that will be presented imminently in the courts for this football scandal.

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