Another chapter of the arbitration scandal in Barcelona: a claim for money for “favors rendered” came to light

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FC Barcelona, ​​involved in a scandal with a former referee (REUTERS/Albert Gea)
FC Barcelona, ​​involved in a scandal with a former referee (REUTERS/Albert Gea)

Meanwhile he FC Barcelona struggle to stay at the top of the standings in The league and overcome their series of round of 32 of the UEFA Europa League ante Manchester Unitedthe case that investigates the payments of the Catalan club to a company of Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, former referee and who was vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA). And in the last few hours, a leaked burofax compromising.

The newspaper The world has published a document in which Enríquez Negreiraa First Division referee for 13 seasons (1977-1992) and later director of the body that regulates referees in Spain, demanded payment of a debt that, in his assessment, the Barça had with him for non-payment of some receipts.

negreirathrough his legal representative, reminded the Catalan club that “it maintains a contract for the provision of services that lasts until the end of the current presidential term” and uses said document to inform the club that “it has been notably surprised by the non-payment of the invoices attached to this document related to the provision of services from the months of July to the current month of December, both inclusive, and totaling a due amount of 267.047 euros (USD 322.750)”.

It is burofax that has come to light corresponds to the December 3, 2018 and it is prior to a second document in which he threatened to reveal “irregularities”. The former vice president of Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) exposes that the Barça he has them “required to work exclusively in such a way that it cannot provide services to third parties” and that his work was carried out in a “close with Presidency”to the point of transgressing “many times the confidences and favors from the professional to the personal”.

Later, the tone softened and indicates that he wanted “Understand that this non-payment is due to some kind of administrative error” and had faith that “It was resolved happily for the good of all parties”. However, he set a deadline “within 10 business days” to receive your money.

Enríquez Negreira rate this as a “misunderstood” before clarifying that “otherwise, the attitude of FC Barcelona and especially that of Mr. Bartomeu will be incomprehensible, which would cause him deep disappointment after so many years of relationship, of so many favors rendered, so many shared confidences”.

A former referee and TV commentator said that he was threatened by Enríquez Negreira.

The disclosure of this document has been added to statements by Sergi Albert Giménezformer referee and television commentator, who assures that he received threats from Enríquez Negreira. “He called me and said: ‘Hey, chicken, what did you think? If you keep making these comments, something could happen to you. Go very carefully,’” he commented in dialogue with El Larguero from the station Chain BE.

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An inspection of the Treasury was what caused the Prosecutor’s Office to open an investigation for an alleged crime of corruption for discovering that there are invoices since 2003 between DASNIL 95 FIGa company in which Enríquez Negreira was the only partner, and the FC Barcelona. The Spanish media revealed that he received more than 4.7 million euros (USD 5 million) and that, at least between 2016 and 2018, more than 95% of the turnover was from his work with the club under the concept of “technical advice”.

As the scandal broke out, the Barcelona issued a statement in which it has ensured that it contracted the services in the past as an external provider of DASNIL 95 FIG to have “technical reports” related to professional arbitration and for the purpose of “Complement information required by the coaching staff of the first team and the subsidiary”.

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