Esteban Urreiztieta Madrid

Madrid

Updated Thursday, February 8, 2024-7:14 p.m.

The Catalan Football Federation (FCF) has confessed to judge Joaquín Aguirre that it paid

José María Enríquez Negreira

shortly after Barça dispensed with his services, again, in exchange for verbal reports and without any contract. The reason was to decide "which referees could become professionals."

On this occasion, those responsible have communicated in writing to the instructor of the 'Negreira case' that the reason why they signed the former number two of the Spanish referees starting in 2019 was to "give their opinion" on which Catalan referees "had conditions to become professional referees in the future".

This is the response that the FCF has sent to the Court of Instruction number one of Barcelona

, ​​to which EL MUNDO has had exclusive access,

within the framework of the separate piece opened to investigate the personal assets of the historic referee leader. It shows that, despite being out of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) since 2018, he continued to enjoy influence over the referee group and receive funds.

To know more

Soccer.

The Civil Guard investigates all of Barça's intermediate positions to find out what the club's 'modus operandi' was in the Negreira Case

  • Editor: ESTEBAN URREIZTIETA Madrid

The Civil Guard investigates all of Barça's intermediate positions to find out what the club's 'modus operandi' was in the Negreira Case

Sports.

EL MUNDO accesses Barcelona's invoices to Negreira: 33 payments in two years for 1,685,142 euros

  • Editor: ESTEBAN URREIZTIETA

  • Editor: ORFEO SUÁREZ Madrid

EL MUNDO accesses Barcelona's invoices to Negreira: 33 payments in two years for 1,685,142 euros

These new operations ratify

the statements made in recent months by around twenty members before the Civil Guard

in which the arbitrators recorded, contrary to what was stated by the current CTA leadership, that Negreira always enjoyed significant decision-making capacity in the colective.

According to this territorial federation, at least half a dozen invoices issued by Negreira's instrumental companies were paid, specifically by Dasnil, 95, SL, one of which he used to invoice almost 8 million euros to Barça for almost two decades. On this occasion, Negreira's emoluments were much more discreet than those he received from the Barça club and amounted to

around 2,000 euros per quarter.

The FCF explains that it paid Negreira to "accompany the members of the Executive Commission of the Referees Committee to see referees in official First Catalan and Third Federation matches."

"Negreira gave his opinion and advice on whether those referees could have the conditions to become professional referees in the future," adds the letter sent by the federation officials to the court investigating the biggest scandal in the history of Spanish football and which maintains as investigated the last Barça presidents as well as the entity itself, to whom it attributes the crimes of bribery or sports corruption, among others.

The Catalan federation adds in its response to Judge Aguirre that

Negreira suggested "what facets the referees should improve"

to reach professional football, given his experience as vice president of the National Committee of Referees" as well as his career as an "international referee."

"Given that these advisory tasks were carried out in the presence of the Executive Commission of the Technical Committee of Referees, no report was issued," continues the FCF, which thus admits that it carried out the same 'modus operandi' as the Barça when it comes to paying the historic referee leader.

"The members" who accompanied him "made appropriate notes on their advice and then evaluated it internally." "He was also available to the aforementioned Executive Commission for any advice on aspects of the rules of the game or organizational aspects," he concludes.

Within the framework of this same separate piece, the Civil Guard has concluded that, for the moment, it has not noticed any unjustified increase in assets in active professional members, some of whom were reported so that their assets could be traced.

These payments by the FCF took place

months

after

Negreira threatened Barça through two burofaxes revealed by this newspaper

that would uncover all the "irregularities" that he knew about the club if they cut off the payments that he had been receiving for 20 years. .