Barcelona (EFE) bleaching
This has been agreed by the investigating court number 1 of Barcelona in a letter, to which EFE has had access, in which it also decrees the secrecy of the proceedings for a period of one month, with the exception of the resolutions in which it resolves on the personations in the cause and their eventual resources.
The case, in which they investigate the payments of more than seven million euros from FC Barcelona to the Negreiras, was initially opened for the crimes of corruption between individuals in the sports field, unfair administration and false commercial documents, which are now money laundering is also added.
The Prosecutor’s Office believes that more than 7 million euros were paid
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the payments from the Barça club to Negreira between 2001 and 2018, during his vice-presidency at the CTA, exceeded 7.3 million euros and were made with the aim of carrying out “actions tending to favor the FC Barcelona in the decision-making of the referees in the matches they played” and in the “results of the competitions”.
On the contrary, Barça has asked to have the double status of being investigated and of private prosecution in the Negreira case, for the damage suffered by an alleged unfair administration, it has alleged that the Negreiras prepared the reports on the arbitrators they were commissioned to do and has insisted in which there is “no indication” that there has been a “specific alteration” of any result.
In the Negreira case, the court has charged, in addition to FC Barcelona, the former Barça presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu, the former executive director of the club Oscar Grau and the former director of professional sports Albert Soler, as well as Enriquez Negreira and from now on also to his son.