The Ministry of Finance is investigating the purchases at Ikea by the companies of the Negreira plot. The one who was vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees, Jose Maria Enriquez Negreirareceived from FC Barcelona a total of €7.3 million between 2001 and 2018 for alleged advice.
According to the summary of the case, to which he has had access digital freedomthe Inspection Department of the Tax Agency made a request to Ikea in September 2021 regarding companies SOCCERCAM SLU y TRESEP 2014 SL. SOCCERCAM SL is managed by Negreira’s son, Javier Enriquez. According to the registry, its activity is based on “the production and production of sports videos, as well as the promotion and marketing of company products and services.”
For its part, TRESEP 2014 SL belonged to the former manager of FC Barcelona, Joseph Contreras, considered one of the key pieces of the case who died last December. The Contreras company was used to collect, together with Negreira, the money paid by the Barça club and according to the registry, its activity consisted of “construction, installations and maintenance, wholesale and retail trade, commercial distribution, import and export, real estate activities, provision of services, management and administration activities”.
In its request, the Treasury requested Ikea to send it the “list of invoices issued in the years 2016 to 2019, copy of the contracts through which said operations were implemented and of the invoices issued as a consequence of the same, as well as documentary accreditation of the means used for its collection; Detailed description of the operations carried out, with a specific indication, in the case of provision of services, of the place where the provision was made, as well as the person or persons who intervened in the operations on your behalf. .
Also “copy of the budgets agreed upon prior to the start of the benefits, indicating any modification that they, if any, have suffered; copy of any type of communication or additional documentation (mails, delivery notes, work reports, photographs, among others) related to the required benefits; place of provision of the service; physical reference contact person in economic relations; in case there is evidence that the services provided were subcontracted, identification of the final recipient”.
The furniture and decoration store answered the requirements of the Treasury regarding both companies, providing all the documents in its possession. Regarding Josep Contreras’ TRESEP 2014 SL, the store indicated “that the operations to which the invoices refer are the purchase of furniture and decorative items for the home (shelves, sideboards, kitchen furniture, bathroom furniture)“.
Regarding Negreira’s son’s company, Ikea stated that “this party wishes to inform that in the required years, commercial operations have been carried out with SOCCERCAM SLU consisting of the sale of decorative items for the home, books and live plants in our stores located in Valencia and Hospitalet”.
The invoices sent to the Treasury include up to 16 different purchases from TRESEP 2014 SL, the most expensive in 4.172,50 euros. There are also invoices for the value of 2,877.96 euros, 1,443.96 euros or 1,879.44 euros. The most expensive purchase in the name of SOCCERCAM SLU was 918.97 euros. The total value of the acquisitions investigated by the Treasury of both companies reached 20.000 euros.
Invoices include household appliances such as washing machines and refrigerators, induction hobs, shelves, cabinets, grids, shelves, extractors, handles or removable trays.
Barça lied to the Treasury
As revealed LDhe F.C. Barcelona chaired by John Laporta lied to the Ministry of Finance in November 2021 about hiring the alleged advisory services of the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees, Jose Maria Enriquez Negreirato hide the fact that Laporta himself rehired Negreira in 2005. The first hiring of the former number 2 of the referees was made by John Gaspart in 2001.
In its reply to the Treasury dated November 8, 2021, Barça indicated in relation to the contracts for Negreira that “no contract with said company was formalized in writing. The club does not know the details of the formalization of the verbal contract, since we should go back to 2001, date of the first invoice received from said company. In other words, the people who should have negotiated these contracts are no longer employees of the club.”
