The State Attorney General, Alvaro García Ortizhas decided that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor will be in charge of the so-called Negreira case, regarding millionaire payments to the former head of arbitration Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira of FC Barcelona.
To this end, it issued an order on Tuesday establishing jurisdiction to hear the facts that are the subject of Preliminary Proceedings 348/23 of Examining Court No. 1 of Barcelona passed to the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Corruption and Organized Crime, as these are alleged corruption-related crimes of special importance.
According to the complaint already filed by the Barcelona Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, the facts denounced may constitute a continuous crime of business corruption in the field of sports, a continuous crime of unfair administration or a continuing crime of misappropriation, as well as a crime of perpetuating a lie in a commercial document.
From now on, this is it Prosecutor against Corruption the lead in investigating the cause.
The persecution denounced FC Barcelona and its former presidents for these events JJoseph Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Roselland proposed that the current president of Barça, Joan Laporta, be called as a witness.
The complaint was filed in the investigative court number 1 of Barcelona so that it would be cumulative to previous proceedings initiated as a result of a complaint filed by VAR referee Estrada Fernández against Negreira.
In addition to Rosell -who was president of FC Barcelona between 2010 and 2014- and Bartomeu -between 2014 and 2020-, the complaint is directed against the club’s former executive director Oscar Grau and the former director of Professional Sports Albert Soler, who is “of the highest confidence” Bartomeu, according to the public ministry.
The persecution maintains that, through presidents Rosell and Bartomeu, the Barça club “reached and maintained” a “strictly confidential verbal agreement” with the then vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) José María Enríquez Negreira to, “in exchange for money”, perform “actions likely to favor the FC Barcelona in the referees’ decision making in the matches they played” and in the “results of competitions”.
Source: La Verdad
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