The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) who presides on an interim basis Pedro Rocha accuses the former president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD) and former director of FC Barcelona, Albert Solerof covering up the payment of 3 million euros from the Blaugrana entity to the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), José María Enríquez Negreira.
The RFEF has appealed to the Provincial Court of Barcelona the decision of the head of the Court of Instruction No. 1 of Barcelona, Joaquín Aguirre, not to charge Albert Soler with crimes of prevarication and omission of the duty to prosecute crimes. Soler is already being investigated in the case for a continuing crime of sports corruption and another of unfair administration.
According to the 13-page document, to which he has had access Digital Freedom“the complaint from the Public Prosecutor’s Office highlights that Soler enjoyed the utmost confidence of former president Josep María Bartomeu, had been granted powers of organization and control of Barcelona and was perfectly aware of the amounts that were invoiced from January 2011 to June 2018 by the Nilsad entities SCP and Dasnil 95 SL. Both companies were controlled by José María Enríquez Negreira and his son Javier Enríquez Romero.”
“The aforementioned complaint also links Soler with the payments made from Barcelona to the commercial company Soccercam SL, a company exclusively owned by Javier Enrique Romero.. Through this company, Mr. Enríquez Romero would have invoiced very high amounts to Tresep 2014 SL, the company of the deceased Josep María Contreras and this, in turn, would have sent the conveniently inflated invoices to Barcelona for payment to him. As the Public Prosecutor’s Office highlights in its own complaint, this whole scheme was perfectly known to Soler,” adds the RFEF.
“So much so that in his statement to the Police on September 21, 2022, and which took place when he was still the general director of Sports, Soler acknowledged having had a relationship with Enríquez Romero and knowledge of the existence of the payments made. Regardless of whether the person under investigation expressly declared to the Police that he had had a relationship with Enríquez Negreira, what is clear is that, in any case, when he left his position at Barcelona in the direction of the Higher Sports Council, Soler knew of all the payments made since FC Barcelona to José María Enríquez Negreira and Javier Enríquez Romero and was aware of the entire allegedly fraudulent operation,” the letter states.
According to the Federation, “the investigations carried out by the Attached Unit of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade relating to the proceedings have revealed that between the months of June 2014 and March 2021, the period in Soler occupied different positions of responsibility at FC Barcelona, numerous payments were made from Barcelona to companies whose last beneficiaries would have been José María Enríquez Negreira and Javier Enríquez Romero.”
“Thus, during the time in which Soler held a managerial position in the club, the following payments were made: To Nilsad SCP 1,078,047 euros, to Dasnil 95 SL 1,685,142 euros, to Tresep 2014 SL 450,120 euros, of which that 287,334 euros would have gone to Soccercam SL. This means that A total of 3,050,524 euros would have left FC Barcelona in the direction of the Negreira family accounts during the time in which Albert Soler served as director of FC Barcelona.“, highlights the resource.
The “silence of Soler”
The Federation recalls that “Albert Soler left FC Barcelona in March 2021 and immediately began to hold a senior position in the Higher Sports Council, being aware of the existence of these payments to the companies of Enríquez Negreira and Enríquez Romero. Despite this , Soler did not promote or initiate any disciplinary proceedings to administratively sanction the infractions committed. when they had not yet prescribed, nor the prosecution of the crimes allegedly committed, thus breaking any expectation that the facts could be fully punished in accordance with the legal system in force at that time and intending, we understand, that both the administrative infractions and the crimes committed would remain unpunished. “.
“This party considers that the aforementioned crimes of prevarication and omission of the duty to prosecute crimes can be classified without any doubt as committed by Soler to seek impunity for payments made to the Negreira family. Indeed, if Soler had reported these crimes as soon as he took office as General Director of Sports, as was his obligation, they could have obtained an adequate response from both the administrative and criminal spheres,” maintains the RFEF.
“Instead, Soler kept silent, thus trying to conceal the alleged orchestrated plot to extract funds from FC Barcelona in the direction of the investigated Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira and Javier Enriquez Romero. Evidently, the only purpose that such silence could pursue was to try to hide the existence of these payments and give those allegedly responsible an opportunity to escape the action of justice,” he concludes.
2023-12-04 20:03:13
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