Jose Maria Enriquez Negreiraformer vice president of Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), threatened the Barcelona Soccer Club through a burofax, published this Thursday in the newspaper El Mundo, with uncovering a big “scandal” when the Barcelona club he aborted his millionaire payments to receive arbitration advice.
The number two of the referees threatened the Barça club in February 2019, then chaired by Joseph Maria Bartomeucon tell “without consideration the irregularities of the club that he had known and experienced first-hand”.
“I have the firm intention of filing a complaint before the Courts, which will surely have negative consequences. Up to now I have not started these proceedings to, precisely, avoid serious consequences, hoping to reach a proper understanding in relation to my claim since I don’t think another scandal will help the club and much less to Mr. Rosell, taking into account how he invoiced the club or the latter billed him”, Negreira pointed out at the beginning of his burofax.
The Fiscalía de Barcelona is investigating a presumed crime of corruption between private individuals and a company owned by José María Enríquez Negreira, for payments of 1.4 million euros made by Barcelona between 2016 and 2018.
This was revealed on Wednesday by the SER Catalunya program ‘Que t’hi jugues’, which reported that the investigation began as a result of a fiscal inspection to DASNIL 95 SL for the taxation of the aforementioned 1.4 million euros.
According to the same information, Barcelona paid the aforementioned company 532,728.02 euros in 2016, 541,752 euros in 2017 and 318,200 euros in 2018, which is when the last payment was made, a date that coincides, according to the program. radio, with the constitution of a new CTA and the departure of Enríquez Negreira from the Committee.
