• Courts The work of Negreira's son included following arbitrations to the "rival team R.M."

LaLiga offensive as an accusation inthe 'Negreira case'. In a brief submitted to the Court of Instruction number 1 of Barcelona, the sports association chaired by Javier Tebas has claimed the imputation in this procedure of Javier Enríquez Romero, son of the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) between 1994 and 2018 José María Enríquez Negreira, for receiving money from FC Barcelona, either to his company through an intermediary or by work to his father's company.

In the petition to the court, to which this media has had access, LaLiga points out that in its order to initiate the investigation the magistrate charged the former presidents of Barça, Sandro Rosell and Josep María Bartomeu, two former directors and Enríquez Negreira, but not his son Javier despite the complaint of referee Xavier Estrada Fernández I asked for it. The court argued that Enríquez Negreira controlled "exclusively" the companies that received the payments from Barça, about 7.3 million euros, and that the former 'number 2' of the referees explained to the treasury "that he never revealed to his son the confidential agreement reached with FC Barcelona".

According to the Prosecutor's Office, Rosell and Bartomeu allegedly reached "a strictly confidential verbal agreement" with Enríquez Negreira, then vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), so that "in exchange for money" he will carry out "actions tending to favor" Barça in the decision-making of the referees who whistled their matches and thus adulterate the result of the competition. However, LaLiga considers that for this purpose the former referee had the "active and necessary cooperation" of his son Javier in a possible continued crime of corruption between individuals.

For that they provide documentation such as the payments received by Enríquez Romero de Dasnil, his father's company, about 110,000 euros in three years, for the reports he made for Barça and both Bartomeu and former directors Óscar Grau and Albert Soler point out that they had a relationship with Javier Enríquez, not with his father. In addition, LaLiga notes that, in his statement to the police, Enríquez Romero explained that he made reports for Barça between 2015 and 2018 and billed a former intermediary manager through his company.

Despite this, there are payments of "significant economic amounts" directly from Barça to this company between 2003 and 2006, when Joan Laporta was president and Javier Enríquez worked for the Spanish national team. In the search carried out by the police at the home of former director José Contreras, now deceased, for the "'Soule' case, the agents found a handwritten sheet specifying the work carried out by Javier Enríquez for Barça that, in addition to reports and videos, include "the function of accompanying the referees to the hotel or airport".

Payments of 6 arbitrators

However, LaLiga considers that the "possible influence of Enríquez Romero on the arbitration collective" would be in the payments he received from six referees for coaching services between 2016 and 2018, such as Óliver de la Fuente Ramos who paid 10,200 euros. Another of them, Santiago Jaime Latre paid 1,400 euros to Javier Enríquez between May 2016 and April 2017 for this service and in that time, according to LaLiga, he refereed Barcelona four times, (in a Barça-Sevilla and a Barça-Granada both with Barça victory). The accusation details that in the two cases Enríquez Romero made the previous reports for Barça on the arbitration and add that at the beginning of 2018 Latre refereed a Barcelona-Betis and a Barcelona Athletic Club.

Also recorded in the case are payments of 7,400 euros from referee Javier Alberola Rojas to Enríquez Romero between November 2018 and December 2019 after Barcelona ceased its payments to Dasnil, Negreira's company, in June 2018. However, LaLiga recalls that in February 2018 Alberola Rojas refereed in Barça's 6-1 victory over Girona.

The accusation also reminds the court that three other referees, currently in the VAR, paid Negreira's son for the coaching service between 2016 and 2018 amounts ranging from 300 to 1,500 euros. That is why LaLiga asks the court that Javier Enríquez be considered as investigated in this procedure.

Green light to Madrid's accusation

In another brief presented in the Court of Instruction number 1 of Barcelona LaLiga also indicates that "it has no objection" for Real Madrid to be a private accusation in this procedure, as the Prosecutor's Office opined. In addition, the State Attorney on behalf of the Higher Sports Council asks to be accused in the procedure against Barça and the former 'number 2' of the referees to consider "harmed or offended" and has also requested to be popular accusation a neighbor of Tenerife who asks that the investigation be extended also against Joan Laporta and Joan Gaspart for these payments to Negreira. In a few days the court must rule on all these requests.


  • Barcelona
  • Joan Laporta
  • FC Barcelona
  • Girona
  • Tenerife
  • Real Madrid
  • Javier Tebas
  • Josep Maria Bartomeu
  • Spain national football team
  • Santiago de Compostela
  • Seville
  • Grenade
  • Negreira Case

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