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The president of the Barcelona, Josep María Bartomeu, in a press conference

THE CONTROVERSY DOES not STOP

Bartomeu and the 'Barçagate': it Changed of lawyer penalista

Published:18/03/2021 - 20:53h

Updated:18/03/2021 - 21:06h

Josep Maria Bartomeu decided destituir to his previous lawyer and decanted by the same that assisted to the wife of Sandro Rosell in the trial of the ex president

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Josep Maria Bartomeu was protagonist by double game this Wednesday. By a part, the last president of the FC Barcelona was one of the assistants to the takeover of Joan Laporta in the loge of the Camp Nou. And by another, decided to change of lawyer for encarar the trial of the Barçagate, case by which recently was deprived of freedom by the Mossos d'Esquadra, what scandalised to the Spanish football.

As it informed The World, the employer decided to hire the services of the buffet Fuster Fabra, with the end that they commission to assume his defence in the cause. His letrados will be from now José María Fuster Fabra and Gonzalo Quintero, chair of Penal Right. These are the same that they commissioned to assist to Marta Pineda, wife of Sandro Rosell, that was absolved beside his husband by the National High Court.

Until the moment, Bartomeu had explained always with the services of José Ángel González Franco, that went the attendant to defend it during the development of the case Neymar Jr. When it was arrested person, went the lawyer Hernández that assumed his defence. Now, with this recent change, leaves to glimpse the worry of the ex president around the 'Barçagate'.

Investigation of the 'Barçagate'

Regarding the mentioned case of the 'Barçagate', the mentioned media signalled that the Court of Instruction number 13 of Barcelona finds at present analysing the documentation that was taken part with the registers of the Camp Nou and the domiciles of the involved the past Monday 1 March, day in which destapó the scandal and in which it was detained the ex president of the Barcelona institution, beside other members of his managerial board.

It will be the next 7 June when they will produce the first statements of the investigated. Statements for which Josep Maria Bartomeu already will have the backrest of his new lawyers José María Fuster Fabra and Gonzalo Quintero, in wait by his place to achieve full freedom and the absolution of any charge in his against. It subtracts a long process, and undoubtedly each step will form part of the palestra of the Spanish football.