The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) paid 900.000 euros to the former vice president of the CTA José María Enríquez Negreira and his son Javier Enriquez. Negreira is investigated after having collected more than 7.6 million euros from FC Barcelona while he was president of the CTA.
According to several confidential reports prepared by the Integrity Directorate of the RFEF and the CTA that are part of the summary of the Negreira case, to which he has had access Digital Freedomthese payments were made through different concepts between the years 1999 and 2018. The reports were seized by agents of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard during the search carried out at the headquarters of the Referees Committee in September 2023. When the case broke out, the CTA only recognized the payment of 8.500 euros in diets to Negreira.
In the accounting of the RFEF, remunerations appear to Enríquez Negreira de 38.827 euros between 1999 and 2007 in “direct payments, mainly for attendance at arbitration concentrations, referee promotion courses, meetings with arbitration informants or interterritorial commission”; either 162.632 euros in “expenses generated by the aforementioned meetings, both paid to him directly and those supported through the CTA travel agency (Carlson Wagon Lits and Agencia 7 Viajes) between 1999 and 2018.
Also 340.368 euros “through the company Dasnil 95, SL” between 1999 and 2010; 23.092 euros in “direct billing and travel expenses of Javier Enríquez Romero, son of José Mª Enríquez Negreira” between 2004 and 2014; or others 325.706 euros in “invoicing to the company Soccercam, SL, belonging to Javier Enríquez Romero. This company was employed by the CTA and other departments of the RFEF” between 2006 and 2010.
Finally, there is an invoice with the company Radamanto SL related to Enríquez Negreira dated August 25, 2016 for an amount of 11.677 euros regarding “appetizer at Hotel Palace and lunch at Caelis Restaurant in relation to the Spanish Super Cup, held in Barcelona on August 17.”
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The Federation’s report dated March 10, 2023, a month after the Negreira case broke out, reaches the following conclusions: “From the actions carried out by the integrity directorate, it is not confirmed that, at least since the month of May 2018, Neither the RFEF, nor the CTA, nor the arbitration group have done anything reprehensible both from the point of view of integrity and from the legal point of view.“.
“All the actions analyzed within the confidential information procedure refer to activities carried out, where appropriate, by the CTA or the RFEF prior to the month of May 2018 and Its eventual responsibility would fall, if applicable, both from an integrity and legal perspective on the previous management team of the REEF and the CTA.if applicable,” he adds.
“It has been proven that Messrs. Enríquez Negreira and Enríquez Romero, through the companies Dasnil 95, SL and Soccercam, SL, have provided services to the RFEF and the CTA until 2010, although They have no relationship with the functions carried out within the CTA by Mr. Enríquez Negreirto. The services were provided adequately,” highlights the RFEF report.
M. Cantalejo requested information before it reached the Prosecutor’s Office
As revealed this diarythe president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) Luis Medina Spyglass He asked the referees for the information they had about the former vice president of the CTA, José María Enríquez Negreira, before it reached the Prosecutor’s Office that was already investigating the case.
“What we can’t do is find out later that something has happened and we who are giving the opportunity, right? Also to protect you, to help you in whatever is necessary, that we find out later from third parties, right? Or even from by the Prosecutor’s Office itself,” Medina Cantalejo told the arbitrators in a meeting held on February 16, 2023, the audio of which was published by LD.
2024-04-11 19:07:39
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