The Barcelona Tax Office investigates DASNIL 95 SLA company of Jose Maria Enriquez Negreiravice president of Technical Committee of Referees from 1994 to 2018, for corruption between individuals, as the program has progressed What are you playing with?of the chain BE.
The investigation begins from a tax inspection for 1.4 million paid by Barça to the company between 2016 and 2018. Exalted officials of the Barcelona Football Club and Enríquez Negreira have already testified before the Prosecutor’s Office.
The former president of Barça, Joseph Maria Bartomeuhas assured the SER chain that these payments date back to before 2003, when Joan Laporta’s board arrived at the club, although some sources place these payments at the time of John Gaspart Sandro Rosell corroborates this version, Gaspart does not remember this payment and Laporta has declined to make any statements, although the club has issued a statement. Payments were interrupted in 2018, according to Bartomeu due to spending cuts.
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Enríquez Negreira has assured the SER that there is no documentation because his job consisted of verbally advising the Barça club, among other issues, on how the players should behave before each referee.
The Barça club paid DASNIL 95 SL the amounts of 532,728.02 euros in 2016, 541,752 euros in 2017 and 318,200 euros in 2018. In June 2018, Barça paid the last invoice, a date that coincides with the constitution of a new CTA and with the departure of Enríquez Negreira from the Committee.
Enríquez Negreira was the owner of DASNIL 95 and his son, Javier Enríquez Romero, was its administrator. Just as the father told the Treasury inspectors that Barça paid him for verbal advice, the son maintains that he did deliver specific reports to those responsible for the club.
Without favoring Barça
In their versions, the executives maintain that the invoices would correspond to technical reports they received from Javier Enríquez Romero, son of the former referee, and sole administrator of DASNIL 95 SL from 2004 to 2019. These reports were delivered to the sports managers of the first team and the subsidiary , according to the version of these executives. The general investigation proceedings are still open.
Enríquez Negreira He has explained to Cadena SER that he never favored Barça in any decision or arbitration appointment and that his job consisted of verbally advising the Barça club. According to his explanation, the former referee recommended to Barça how the players should behave in front of each referee. That is, what they could and should not do depending on the referee designated for the matches. “That everything was neutral,” he acknowledged before the Tax Agency. In fact, when he was no longer paid by Barça, Enríquez Negreira continued to insist on the need to contract his services, for example to control aspects such as VAR.
Legal actions
The FC Barcelona statement admits that “in the past the club contracted the services of an external technical consultant, who supplied, in video format, technical reports referring to lower-category players in the Spanish State for the club’s technical secretary.”
“Additionally, the relationship with the same external provider was extended with technical reports related to professional arbitration to complement the information required by the coaching staff and the subsidiary, a common practice in professional clubs.” And he adds: “FC Barcelona regrets that this information appears precisely at the best sporting moment of this season”. The club says that it reserves the right to take legal action against anyone who violates the club’s image.
