FC Barcelona has handed over to the judge Joaquin Aguirrewhich investigates the club’s payments to the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees, José María Enriquez Negreira, four boxes with documentation, among which are the originals of the 647 technical reports of the referees who whistled between 2014 and 2018 and who were billed by the companies of the former referee leader and his son, Javier Enriquez Romero, as EL PERIÓDICO DE CATALUNYA, from the Prensa Ibérica group, has been able to verify. Many of these reports do not reflect their authorship. No report of the main defendant in the case appears in the list: Enriquez Negreira. The Barça club has acknowledged that those documents that supported the invoices have not been located because possibly after a time they would have been destroyed.
Enriquez Negreira acknowledged before the Tax Agency inspection that Barça paid him, through a company, Dasnilfor technical advice”, since FC Barcelona “wanted to ensure that no referee decisions were made against them”, that is, that “everything was neutral”.
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But these reports do not rule out that they were verbal, they have not appeared. His contacts in the entity, he admitted in that statement, were the then presidents Sandro Rosell y Joseph Maria Bartomeu, the two high-ranking officials investigated. For this work, his and his son’s companies collected more than seven million from Barça over 18 years.
Among the papers there are reports and a comparison of penalties and cards from Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid
FC Barcelona, therefore, has delivered to the judge the 647 reports and 40 CDs to which the current president of the club, John Laporta, he referred to in his press conference on April 17. In addition, in the four boxes, a file has been included, organized aflabetically by surnames of referees, “drop-down” statistics for Barça and Real Madrid for the 2017-2018 season, with a summary of viewings of the matches with referee analysis, as well as like a comparison of penalties and cards of FC Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid and a study of refereeing “errors” in the Copa del Rey that same season.
Judge Aguirre It has already transferred all this documentation to the Civil Guard for analysis. This work is added to the tracking of both bank accounts and the material that was seized this Thursday in the Technical Committee of Referees in the Spanish Football Federation.
The Civil Guard searches the Technical Committee of Referees in search of papers from the Negreira case
Executive and financial structure
The judge also asked FC Barcelona other important data for the investigation and, above all, to finish limiting the possible criminal responsibilities. Specifically, the order required the club to identify the people who have made up “the executive structure” of the entity, the top sports officials, the general and financial directors and “any other position regardless of the name” that has the “ability to execute strategic decisions.”
The magistrate has also been interested in the “structure and control body” of compliance (the body that ensures regulatory compliance) and the reports issued. The sources consulted by this newspaper have assured that the club has already presented this data in court. .
On the other hand, sources of the investigation have specified that the Civil Guard is “satisfied” with the result of the entry and search carried out this Thursday in the Referee Technical Committee (CTA), whose offices are in the Spanish Football Federation, in Las Rozas (Madrid). During the 10-hour operation, the agents seized documentation referring to Enriquez Negreira and his decisions as vice president of the organization.
2023-09-29 19:12:15
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