Another chapter in Barcelona refereeing scandal: Request for ‘favours returned’ money revealed

During this time he FCBarcelona fight to stay at the top of the leaderboard The league and overcome their round of 16 streak of the UEFA Europa League Before Manchester Unitedthe case which 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 leak burofax compromising.

The newspaper The world published a document in which Enriquez Negreiraa first division referee for 13 seasons (1977-1992) and later director of the body that regulates referees in Spain, demanded the payment of a debt which, according to his assessment, the Barca had with him for non-payment of certain receipts.

negreirathrough his legal representative, reminded the Catalan club that “he 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 was particularly surprised by the non-payment of the invoices attached to this document related to the service delivery from the month of July to the current month of December, both inclusive, and totaling an amount due of 267,047 euros (322,750 USD)”.

It is burofax which has been updated corresponds to the December 3, 2018 and this is before a second document in which he threatened to reveal “irregularities”. The former vice president of Referees Technical Committee (CTA) exposes that the Barca he has them “must work exclusively in such a way that it cannot provide services to third parties” and that his work was carried out in a “close to the presidency”to the point of transgressing “several times the confidences and favors of the professional to the staff”.

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

Enriquez Negreira rate this as a “misunderstood” before specifying 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, so many favors returned, so many confidences shared”.

Disclosure of this document has been added to the statements of Sergi Albert Gimenezformer referee and television commentator, who claims to have received threats from Enriquez Negreira. “He called me and said: ‘Hey, chicken, what do you think? If you keep making these comments, something could happen to you. Go very carefully'”, he commented in dialogue with El Larguero of the radio BE channel.

A Treasury inspection prompted the prosecution to open an investigation for an alleged crime of corruption for having discovered that there were invoices since 2003 between DASNIL 95 FIGa company of which Enríquez Negreira was the sole shareholder, and the FCBarcelona. Spanish media revealed that he had received more than €4.7 million ($5 million) and that, at least between 2016 and 2018, more than 95% of the turnover came from his work with the club under the concept of “technical advice”.

When the scandal broke, the Barcelona issued a statement in which it ensured that it had 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 purposes of “Additional information requested by the technical staff of the first team and the subsidiary”.

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