Barcelona (EFE) 4 million euros made by FC Barcelona between 2016 and 2018.
This was revealed by the program ‘Que t’hi jugues’ of SER Catalunya, which reports that the investigation began as a result of a tax inspection of DASNIL 95 SL for the taxation of the aforementioned 1.4 million euros.
According to the same information, Barcelona paid the aforementioned company 532,728.02 euros in 2016, 541,752 euros in 2017 and 318,200 euros in 2018, which is when the last payment was made, a date that coincides, according to the program. radio, with the constitution of a new CTA and the departure of Enríquez Negreira from the Committee.
Quoted by the same program, the former president Josep Maria Bartomeu assures that the payments were ended due to “a policy of cutting expenses” and revealed that the reports already existed “at least in 2003”, when he arrived at the club, and that were paid “continuously” until 2018.
That same version is supported by Sandro Rosell’s board of directors, according to the same radio program, while former vice president Joan Gaspart assures that these payments are “not recorded”.
Joan Laporta, president of FC Barcelona, considers that “it is no coincidence” that at times like the present “in which Barcelona is doing well” information like the one published today appears.
According to the SER, the Prosecutor’s investigation is related to a Treasury inspection for irregularities in the taxation of the three aforementioned years.
In a statement to Cadena SER, Enríquez Negreira has ensured that there is no documentation because his job consisted of verbally advising the Barça club, among other issues, on how the players should behave in front of each referee and that he never favored Barça in any decision or arbitral appointment.
Barça responds that it hired DASNIL for technical reports on arbitrations
Barcelona has responded to these accusations by saying that in the past it hired the services of an external provider (DASNIL 95 SL) to have “technical reports” related to professional arbitration and in order to “complement information required by the coaching staff of the first team and the subsidiary”.
This has been reflected in a statement issued as a result of the information on the program ‘Que t’hi jugues’ by SER Catalunya.
Through this statement, FC Barcelona informs that the Catalan club “hired in the past” the services of an external technical consultant, who supplied in video format “technical reports referring to lower-category players in Spain for the technical secretary”. of the Barcelona entity.
“Additionally, the relationship with the same external provider was extended with technical reports related to professional arbitration in order to complement the information required by the coaching staff of the first team and the subsidiary, a common practice in professional football clubs,” he says. it’s a statement.
The Barcelona club reports that currently “this type of outsourced services” falls on a professional “assigned to the football area”.
In its statement, Barcelona regrets that “this information appears precisely at the best sporting moment of this season” and ensures that it will take “legal action against anyone who misrepresents the image of the Club with possible insinuations contrary to the reputation of the entity that can be produce as a result of this information”.
The CTA regrets the “behaviors that may go against the ethics of the estate”
The Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) has issued a statement on Wednesday in which it “regrets the behaviors that may be likely to violate the ethics of the establishment.”
“No active arbitrator or member of the CTA bodies can carry out any work that is likely to enter into a conflict of interest,” the committee underlines in its note.
The CTA “wants to make it clear that Mr. Enríquez Negreira is not part of any federative structure since the change of government carried out after the 2018 elections.”
Likewise, the CTA “puts itself at the disposal of the Justice to offer its maximum collaboration in any type of information that this Committee can provide.”