The Mossos d’Esquadra also appeared last week at the headquarters of the company PriceWaterHouseCoopers (PwC) in Barcelona to request a court order to audit the case. Barçagat to, as you may have known The vanguard from police sources. The study must analyze the hiring of the company I3Ventures by the Barça. Agents, however, left empty-handed after the company informed them that the report was not yet finalized.
The audit, in fact, is about to see the light. The club says it will have the details of this PwC report this week. He will then immediately convene a meeting of the board of directors, which will be followed by an explanatory press conference.
The audit would say that there was no crime, but still an inflated price was paid
It is a highly anticipated text in recent weeks. In principle, the audit would say that no crime has been committed, although it remains to be seen what it explains about the price the club paid for those contracts (around one million euros) and if they adjusted to their real market value.
The proceedings interested by the investigating judge 13 of Barcelona, Adriana Gil, seek to clarify whether Barça or any of the club’s managers knowingly paid a higher price than the market price to I3Ventures and five related companies to carry out monitoring tasks. of the networks, or, if any manager charged commissions in exchange for awarding that contract to the company, which could constitute a crime of unfair administration and corruption between individuals. In the framework of the same investigations, the Mossos also appeared last week at the Camp Nou to collect the documentation on the hiring of I3Ventures, as this newspaper reported yesterday.
Ongoing research
The judge wants to identify the mediators who awarded and negotiated the contract with I3 Ventures
Barcelona considers that the police visit is a preliminary procedure of the court that has completed as it could not do otherwise. Consulted by this newspaper, sources from the Blaugrana club pointed out that all the documentation delivered to the Mossos had already been sent before PwC. Today the club president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, will attend the press conference to present Sarunas Jasikevicius as the new Barça basketball coach and is likely to be questioned about the Barçagat to.
The judge, in the order issued on May 21, in which she accepted the complaint from eight partners belonging to the Dignitat Blaugrana group, also asked to “identify the person or persons who acted as mediators in the award of the contracts and that they negotiated conditions, amounts and supervised the execution ”.
Messi was one of the soccer players criticized in the fake accounts of I3Ventures (David Ramos / Getty)
It will be from then on that the interrogations begin. “Once the information collected has been analyzed, it is foreseeable that a person in charge of Barça or a person in charge of the company I3Ventures will take a statement as investigated,” he stresses. The vanguard the lawyer of Dignitat Blaugrana, Tino Adell.
The head of I3Ventures, Carlos Ibáñez, wanted to appear in the procedure but the judge dismissed it because it is still unknown if the businessman can be investigated in the case or is only a victim.
Hot affair
Barça will have the audit this week; the board will meet immediately and there will be an appearance
In fact, Barcelona appears in the case as injured, – at the moment no manager or the club as a legal person is charged – but his condition could change if the investigation leads to the commission of a crime.
He Barçagat to broke out on February 17 when the Chain Ser revealed that the club had hired the company I3 Ventures, in charge of monitoring the social networks for the club and that it generated false accounts in which opponents and even soccer players were criticized. The order was awarded to I3 Ventures and some of its subsidiaries with offices in Argentina and Uruguay, for which an amount close to one million euros was collected, which was distributed through 5 payments of 198,000 euros, supposedly to avoid the club’s internal controls. Payments over 200,000 euros must be approved by the board of directors. A government team that became extremely stressed by this complex case.
