• Courts The Civil Guard will ask Barcelona for new documentation to track the money that Negreira collected

FC Barcelona is one of those harmed by the 'Negreira case'. This is considered by the club that has asked the Court of Instruction number 1 of Barcelona to admit him in double condition: that of investigated for the crimes of corruption in sports, unfair administration and falsification of commercial documents and that of private accusation. In a letter submitted to the court, the Barça entity believes that it has "the condition of offended and harmed by the alleged commission of a crime of unfair administration" since the club's assets have suffered "damage" with the payments made for 17 years to the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) between 1994 and 2018 José María Enríquez Negreira and his son Javier Enríquez Romero.

Barça recalls that the Prosecutor's Office, in its initial complaint, pointed out that the payments to the companies Dasnil and Nilsad, of Enríquez Negreira, between 2001 and 2018 exceeded 7.3 million euros represented "a real remuneration not foreseen in the statutes of the club or approved by the General Assembly so it lacked a title that justified it. In short, these perceptions had no legal or statutory support." Therefore, Barça's lawyers point out that, continuing with this argumentation, "the club's assets would have allegedly been mismanaged, consequently causing damage to it."

Therefore, in its letter to which this medium has had access, Barça considers that "regardless of the existence of a real and effective provision of an arbitration technical advice service, this service would have been billed twice, formalizing, in addition, one of these billing channels through interposed mercantile companies that received a commission for it. " In this sense, they refer to the payments of the club to the son of Negreira through a company of a former director, Josep Contreras, who died a few months ago. Barça paid the amounts to this company for the advisory services and analysis reports carried out by Javier Enríquez, not only of the refereeing performance in matches of the Catalan team but of its direct rivals such as Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid, and then Contreras paid the society of Negreira's son keeping an important commission.

In the process opened in the Court of Instruction number 1 of Barcelona, Barça has also opposed that Real Madrid is a private accusation considering that it is not harmed by the crimes under investigation. They argue that in any case it would be La Liga, as the organizer of the competition, who can appear in this procedure as affected. Barcelona also rejects that Madrid is popular accusation although it leaves the door open to this possibility if the white club pays a bail of 500,000 euros taking into account that it has income of 770 million euros for this season: "The amount of the bail does not seem high or excessive."

In addition, the Prosecutor's Office rejected the appearance of the Superior Council of Sports as an accusation in this procedure taking into account that its "nature" is "purely administrative, with recognition of its own disciplinary competences, urging the sanction of behaviors that, in case of exceeding the limits of the purely sporting field, must be referred to the judicial or fiscal authority so that they are the ones who act. " That is why he believes that he cannot be "harmed or offended" despite the organizational powers of the arbitration system. The State Attorney's Office urged to appear in the procedure and La Liga or the Spanish Football Federation do not object.

The prosecutor also rejects the extension of the investigation into Enríquez Romero as requested by La Liga since it is "hasty" at this time that there is a "nourished incriminating evidentiary support." The Public Ministry urges to wait for the report commissioned by the court to the Civil Guard before making a decision. At the moment, the 'Negreira case' continues to accumulate requests from the parties waiting for any resolution to be resolved.

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  • Real Madrid
  • Atletico Madrid
  • Civil Guard
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