The holder of the Court of Instruction No. 1 of Barcelona, Joaquin Aguirrewill assume the investigation of the Negreira case after the departure of the reinforcing magistrate silvia lopez.
This Court began to investigate in March the payment of 7.3 million euros from FC Barcelona between 2001 and 2018 to the then vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira. Magistrate Silvia López admitted for processing the complaint by the Prosecutor’s Office and the complaint filed by the VAR arbitrator, Xavier Estrada Fernandez. Four months later, the instructor leaves the cause.
Sources of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) consulted by digital freedom They ensure that “the reinforcement of magistrate Silvia López in the Investigating Court No. 1 of Barcelona was approved until June 30.” For this reason, the Negreira case investigated by López will fall to the head of the Court itself, Joaquín Aguirre.
Aguirre was born in the Canary Islands in 1958. After accessing the judiciary, he went through various courts in Barcelona before being assigned to Calatayud. Subsequently, he returned to Barcelona in 1988 to take charge of the Investigating Court No. 1 of Barcelona, where he continues to carry out his work today.
Joaquín Aguirre is one of the most experienced judges of the Investigating Courts of Barcelona. In recent years, he has investigated highly publicized causes related to the Catalan independence movement. Among them, the so-called ‘Voloh case’. This macro-cause began with the investigation of an alleged fraud of subsidies in the Barcelona Provincial Council to an NGO, and ended up leading to the financing of the former Catalan president on the run Carlos Puigdemont in Brussels, to Russian interference in the 1-O or the organization of the serious altercations in Barcelona after knowing the sentence of the Supreme Court.
It should be noted that the last days of the magistrate Silvia López in the investigation of the Negreira case have been the most controversial. On Tuesday of last week, as she published LDthe Investigating Court No. 1 of Barcelona revealed the secret investigations that were being carried out in the case.
The instructor declared the proceedings secret in May and launched a series of investigative procedures to collect documentation from the Barcelona Soccer Club, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), the Tax Agency, the Social Security Treasury and several fund remittance companies. Silvia López agreed in last week’s order to extend the secrecy of the proceedings for a month in an order that surprisingly included the investigative procedures initiated and that was notified to the parties and the media.
Three days after this incident, the instructor Silvia López Mejía stopped working as a reinforcement judge in the Investigating Court No. 1 of Barcelona as her collaboration with the aforementioned Court was no longer necessary.
The controversial car with the secret errands
Silvia López’s car revealed the investigative procedures required of Barça. The blaugrana entity was asked for the “originals of the 629 reports, the 43 CDS and the other 4 reports to which the President of the FCB referred, John Laporta, in his public appearance on 04/17/23. The judge also requested the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA the “Relation of First and Second Division Referees between the year 2010 and the present”.
respect to Haciendathe instructor claimed that in the period between 2010 and the present, the information contained in its databases in relation to: “Declaration of operations with third parties (model 347) of the following natural and legal persons, identification of their financial products, as well as the balances of such products that José María Enríquez Negreira, his son Javier Enríquez and 4 other people, as well as 12 companies, had been or are currently both owners and attorneys-in-fact.
2023-07-03 18:52:17
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