The Tax Agency has increased to 7.6 million euros in funds paid by FC Barcelona to former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), José María Enríquez Negreiraand his son, according to a Civil Guard report delivered to Judge Joaquín Aguirre, who is investigating, among other crimes, the alleged case of bribery or sports corruption, among other crimes. The prosecution maintained in its complaint that this amount was 7.3 million euros, based on estimates made at the time by the Treasury, but that amount has been rectified. In their new table, the inspectors distinguish between what was officially declared (7.5 million) and what was imputed (7.6 million). This summary includes all disbursements from 2001 to 2018.
In this letter, the Civil Guard asked the judge to require the extracts of 72 currents from eight banks and whose owners are not Enríquez Negreira, his current partner, the son of the former arbitration leader, Javier Enríquez Romero, and seven companies, including Dasnil 95 , Nilsad and Soccercam. These three were the ones who received the funds from FC Barcelona for alleged arbitration advice. Judge Aguirre has already accepted this request.
This request from the agents of the armed institute was made when the investigation expanded to crime of money laundering. The Civil Guard maintains that there are a series of banking operations by those investigated, that is, Enríquez Negreira and his son, which “could be associated with activities of concealment of the funds received” by Barça, to which we must add “the null, incorrect and contradictory” explanations offered by the defendants throughout the judicial process.
The requirement for banks to credit the charges reflected by the Treasury, taking into account that one of the “main reasons” why the club could have decided to hire Enríquez Negreira could have been his ability to influence and participated in decision making for the position he held within the Technical Committee of Referees.” That influence, in the opinion of the Civil Guard, is “palpable” in, at least, the evaluations for referee promotions or relegations or in the designation of international referees.
The front men
In this same report, the agents emphasize that, not infrequently, they resort to interpose natural persons or companies to conceal funds and assets originating from unjustified sources, “so it cannot be ruled out” that Enríquez Negreira “had channeled, at least partially, part of the funds obtained through other people in his environment”, given the “significant withdrawals of funds from their bank accounts and those of their companies”.
Some of the companies of Javier Enríquez Romero, the son of the former referee manager, invoiced between 2013 and 2018 three companies owned by Josep Contreras Arjona, former director of the now deceased FC Barcelona base club. These companies, in turn, “reinvoiced” the entity for the services of Enríquez Romero. As the latter explained, this operation had as purpose not to relate his father’s surname with Barçaan argument that, in the opinion of the Civil Guard, “makes no sense”, since in the companies that until then invoiced the club he also appeared exercising “a certain degree” of control.
2023-10-30 12:26:50
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