He judge Joaquín Aguirre Lópezof Investigative Court No. 1 of Barcelona, has agreed this Wednesday to extend the status of the investigation to Joan Laporta and the other members of the board of directors in his first term as president of FC Barcelona within ‘Case of Negreira’ for ongoing crimes of bribery, sports corruption of art. 286bis 4 and unfair administration by understanding that José María Enriquez Negreira He is a public official in his previous position as former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) and the payments made until 2018 were made to “benefit FC Barcelona at the expense of other clubs”.
The judge’s order details the facts that the magistrate found Joaquin Aguirre was considered to extend the case to the president Joan Laporta and from which the judge drew the following logical inferences.
While the judge’s order is quoted verbatim, after the verified facts, “it can be concluded that since his position, the investigated Enríquez Negreira, is in the second step of authority within the CTA-RFEF, the scope of his influence is very wide.” and that “the payment by FC Barcelona to Enríquez Negreira or his son Enríquez Romero can be considered to have been made in response to the position held by the former since the payments lasted for approximately 18 years, which increases from an initial €70,000 to €700,000 annually”.
Furthermore, the judge Joaquín Aguirre points out that “FC Barcelona stopped the payment as soon as Enríquez Negreira stopped being vice president of the CTA” and that “by logical deduction, the payments made by FC Barcelona satisfied the interests of the club due to their duration and annual increase” and that “from this it is also judged that the payments caused the arbitration effects desired by FC Barcelona, as a result of systemic corruption in Spanish arbitration as a whole, that “It does not mean that every referee is corrupt, but a group of them do.”
For all this and when considered Enriquez Negreira As a public official, judge Joaquín Aguirre extended the status of President Joan Laporta who is under investigation because the crimes of bribery, sports corruption and unfair administration will not end before the end of his first term.
Source: La Verdad
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