OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT
Bartomeu speaks out about the possible embezzlement he starred in at Barça
Published:21/07/2023 - 21:55h
Updated:21/07/2023 - 21:55h
The 'Barçagate' keeps on being a subject and an open investigation, by what the name of Bartomeu continues having news around, and in this opportunity the ex-president culé has not doubted to defend of the most recent indictments
As we already explain this week in FCBN, the Mossos d'Esquadra made a new report in relation with the 'Barçagate' and now have suggested that the exmandatario Barcelona Josep Maria Bartomeu used an agreement with a company called Amalgamates Marketing, property of Miquel Sambola, to divert bottoms of the FC Barcelona. The officials attribute the union between the Catalan entity and the company of Sambola, no by professional services, but by the presumptive friendship that there is between Bartomeu and the already referred president of the company of marketing.
This indictment has done that Bartomeu react and this Friday issued an official communiqué attacking to the Mossos by his presumptive embezzlement in the Catalan team. In his proclaims of this weekend, the exdirectivo of the Barça has explained that the police body "has not encircled to his functions, doing without court order affirmations that at all have to see with the orderly investigation by the jueza, that is the contracting of the company Nicestream", aimed.
It fits to stand out that in addition to this corporation, also signed agreements with other companies like Nicestream and the already known 'I3Ventures', something that precisely has motivated this last comment of Bartomeu in the start of his communiqué. Josep Maria also affirms that it is not the first time that happens, since previously the Mossos already issued a report that was not incorporated in the performances by part of the jueza, when considering it that there was not correlation and that ciñeran so as to the investigation.
Bartomeu goes back to escudar in that all treats of a personal attack
Besides, the exmandatario denies categorically the facts that have concluded the Mossos, describing as them "falseados with the technician to take isolated sentences and extract absolute conclusions", aimed. According to the communiqué, Amalgamates Marketing, the company that according to the Mossos used Bartomeu to benefit individually at the expense of the Barça, is one of the different agencies of communication that had hired the club, and that in a "portrait folded of falsities, affirm that they hired his services on time to pay to journalists or employers", ensured.
In the conclusion of the communiqué, Bartomeu understands that the investigation of the Mossos does not consist to "pursue the supposed orderly crimes judicialmente, but to entrometerse in the personal life and/or professional of a person not respecting the object of the procedure", thought. Like this, the ex-president of the Barça has asked to the court that expel this new report of the Mossos and that, once again, remember to the judicial body that adjust so as to the investigation.
Numbers that have concerned to a lot of culés
The report of the Mossos revealed that it Amalgamates Marketing invoiceed 84.000 euros by season until 2020, and paid him 152.000 euros in total by this agreement. Aunado To this, this corporation would have made punctual works between 2015 and 2020, such as the campaign by the Balloon of Gold of Leo Messi and by this obtained some 223.000 additional euros. As it reflects the investigation, 43% of the total of these payments diverted would have gone to the employer Josep Sanmartí, 29% to the journalist Marçal Llorente, 14% would go to Mique Sambola and 14% remaining would deliver between the journalists Albert Lesán and Albert of the Tower.