The board of directors of Real Madrid has formally decided this Sunday that the white club requests to appear as a private prosecution Negreira case. A step that represents a radical change in the passive strategy of Florentino Perez since the first investigations by the Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office into payments from Barça to the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees, José María Enríquez Negreira, became known.
“Real Madrid expresses its deep concern about the seriousness of the events and reiterates its full confidence in the action of justice and has agreed that, in defense of their legitimate interestswill appear in the procedure as soon as the judge opens it to the affected parties”, Real Madrid assured in a statement made public after the board of directors held urgently this Sunday. The words “accusation” are omitted from the text. particular”.
Access to the procedure
This movement, if accepted by the judge assigned the case, will allow Real Madrid tohave first-hand access to all the documentation of the case, as well as the proceedings carried out by the judge himself. And, by the way, so as not to leave his representation in the hands of LaLiga, who announced his intention to appear in person if the case went to court weeks ago, something that the RFEF will also do and the Government, through the Higher Sports Council.
The white club has opted for stop putting yourself in profile before this scandalafter the Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office decided on Friday to file a complaint against Barça, as well as against former presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu and former senior executives Óscar Grau and Albert Soler, as well as against Negreira himself, like himself club highlights in its statement.
Social pressure
The forcefulness of the brief presented by the Prosecutor’s Office, accusing Enríquez Negreira of receiving the commission to carry out “actions tending to favor FC Barcelona in the referees’ decision-making in the matches that the club played, and thus in the results of the competitions”, has forced Florentino to take this step. Also the social pressure of their fans, who at the Santiago Bernabéu have shown their indignation in several matches with the alleged practices carried out by their eternal rival on the pitch.
The Prosecutor’s Office attributes to the Barça club, as a legal person, a continuous crime of corruption in business in the sports field. Bartomeu, Grau, Soler and Rosell are accused of corruption between individuals in the sports field, unfair administration and, in the case of the first three, documentary falsification. The accusation against the former referee focuses on corruption and documentary falsification and his son, Javier Enríquez, who also worked for Barcelona, has been excluded from it.
