The 'Negreira case' provokes an exhaustive investigation at Barça

Published:17/02/2023 - 17:04h

Updated:17/02/2023 - 17:04h

In the midst of the controversy over the 'Negreira case' and his relationship with FC Barcelona, the club would be starting an important investigation process to find out the background of the relationship with the former vice president of the referees

After from 'Què T'hi Jugues' desvelaran that the Fiscalía was investigating the payment of more than one million euros to José María Enriquez Negreira, ex vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) between 2016 and 2018, by reports on the referees, from the FC Barcelona would have begun an investigation inside the club to know the background of the operations.

Up to now, from the picture of the City Condal only had pronounced once to clear that the club "hired in the happened the services of a consultor technical external, the one whos uministraba, in format video, technical reports referred to players of inferior categories of the Spanish State for the technical office of the Club", and that said relation extended with on technical reports related with the professional arbitration.

The Barça had expressed that regretted that "this information appear precisely in the best sportive moment of the present season" but, now, according to an information of the newspaper 'SPORT', the club has begun an investigation with the intention that the efficiency was maximum in the middle of the process with the Fiscalía, that permance opened.

Likewise, they have specified that the Barça will keep his posture of not doing comments in this regard to avoid misunderstandings and leaks, by what all the information that achieve the area of Compliance, directed by Sergi Atienza, will keep privately until it finalise the investigation.

The content of the reports of Negreira

For the moment, there are a lot of informations on the background of the relation of the Barça with the company of Negreira, but in the last hours 'ABC' has published an interview with Josep María Bartomeu in which they affirmed that the reports by which paid the club "was a document written and a DVD, for the parties of the first team and of the filial. It was a referee's analysis. When it had to go to Madrid said it to him to Zubizarreta, Robert Fernández... Or the one who was in the charge, that was the one who asked him a video to Javier Enríquez, that to his time was the one who commissioned to do all the videos".