“UEFA is more involved than it seems in the Negreira affair,” reveals journalist Julio Suárez. And it is that UEFA has requested documents from the RFEF and La Liga.
The president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, revealed they reported the matter to UEFA 48 hours after it was made public. “As we could not intervene because it had prescribed it, we wrote to UEFA, which other institutions did not do”, he declared after recalling that the statutes of the UEFA provide that where national institutions cannot intervene, they can do so at international level.
Thebes insisted he wanted this matter clarified and that ‘there is no campaign to discredit Barcelona’ and also denied he was interested in the club becoming a public limited company .
With all that, Barca could face UEFA sanction. In ‘El Chiringuito’, José María de Pablo, a criminal lawyer, analyzed the penalties and the possible consequences of this trial for Barça if he is finally convicted.
“The prosecution’s complaint speaks of an offense of sports corruption, which has been an offense provided for in the criminal code since 2010. In principle, it incurs fines, which is the basic penalty that this offense provides for.” for”, began the also professor at the University of Navarre.
“However, there is a series of sanctions that should not be applied, which will depend on the seriousness of the facts and the seriousness that the judge and the prosecution understand that the facts have had,” he explained.
“There are certain penalties that can range from suspension of activities to 5 years or even dissolution,” he added.
Of course, he does not believe that this point will be reached: “I do not believe that this sanction will intervene in the event of condemnation since it should be about extremely serious events. Of course, as a civil liability, the return of some of the titles could be imposed.”