LaLiga demands in writing that the judge in the case that brought Villar to jail investigates the origin of the 4,400 euros paid to Javier Enríquez for consultancy work
Remaining determined that justice is inexorable in the ‘Negreira case’, Javier Tebas punishes from a criminal point of view a scandal that has cast Spanish football under suspicion but prescribed sporting. While the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating Barça’s payment of around €7 million to the former Vice President of the Referees’ Technical Commission (CTA), José María Enríquez Negreira, for alleged oral advice, LaLiga has submitted a letter to the National Court to investigate the payment of 4,400 euros by the Spanish Football Federation (FEF) to Negreira’s son, Javier Enríquez Romero, for coaching or consultancy work.
The request is addressed to Judge Alejandro Abascal and aims to frame these new investigations within the so-called ‘Soule case’, the case that follows this magistrate for the alleged irregularities of the former president of the FEF for almost thirty years, Ángel Maria Villar. Thebe already gave indications for this letter in his appearance on Monday, when, after explaining the new salary limits of the clubs after the winter market, he asked the prosecutor’s office to file a complaint for the ‘Negreira case’ as soon as possible and put forward that he had sent him information that might be useful to the case.
Therefore, the document submitted to the National Court is a movement parallel to the previous one and contributes to a case that has been ongoing since 2017, for which Villar and his son Gorka came to prison. The document, filed by Vozpopuli, is dated February 17, and in it, LaLiga’s legal representative, who appears as a private prosecutor in the case against Villar, points out that “news related to certain events that may have a criminal character” with Enríquez Negreira and his son, who is reported to have provided coaching services precisely for the benefit of the FEF and the CTA”.
The document explains that these advisory services were paid for with the funds that LaLiga provides to the Federation, of which 18.75% came from the collection of the pools. And it details these subscriptions, season by season, based on the pre-existing documentation in the summary of the ‘Soule case’, with documents in Excel format delivered by the FEF itself at the request of the magistrate to the National Court at the time.
“The FEF has not provided the supporting invoices for the expenses recorded, so it cannot verify whether they could have existed at all, what and for whom the services were provided, their duration, the hourly rate or who authorized the payment.” the complaint of the employers association of clubs to the National Court. In addition, LaLiga put another accusation in black and white: “The choice of the provider (the son of Enríquez Negreira) seems obvious what he responds to.”
In this sense, LaLiga demands that the judge transmit this information to the General Intervention of the State Administration (IGAE), which falls under the Ministry of Finance and is responsible for investigating suspicious money flows, so that it can be taken into account in the report that the investigating judge had drawn up at the request of the Public Prosecution Service about the contribution of public money to cover arbitration costs in professional football. In short, Tebas intends to track down the potential “diversion of public funds for purposes unrelated to the grant and authorized obligations.”
Source: La Verdad
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