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THE PROVINCIAL PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE HAS BEEN RELIEF

Anti-corruption will take charge of the 'Negreira Case' after the complaint against Barça

Published:14/03/2023 - 15:20h

Updated:14/03/2023 - 15:20h

Given the special importance of the crimes for which FC Barcelona is being accused, the 'Negreira Case' will now be in the hands of Anti-Corruption, according to the decree of the State Attorney General's Office

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In the last weeks, has desatado an authentic 'earthquake' with epicentre in the dispatches of the Spotify Camp Nou. After the complaint by part of the Fiscalía, every time have been more the institutions that have manifested his repudiate in front of the facts attributed to previous management of the FC Barcelona and that andventualmente personarían in case to initiate a judicial process against the Catalan entity.

Recently, from the Fiscalía Anticorrupción have given to know that it will be this organism the attendant to head the process of investigation. Of this way, the case has happened to another instance after having been to charge of the Fiscalía Provincial of Barcelona, as it is recorded in a decree issued by the Fiscalía General of the State. Everything after the complaint of the provincial body to the Barça and to his ex-presidents Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell.

The reasons of the decision

In accordance with the mentioned decree, this movement obeys to the "special transcendence" of the crimes of which is being accused the club: "Attended the concurrent circumstances, as they are the complexity of the facts, his importance from the economic point of view, as well as the public repercussion and the social significance of those".

By the moments, the complaint of the Fiscalía continues in foot waiting for being admitted by the competent organism. In her they are registered all the facts that would involve possible crimes by part of the Barcelona institution. These would be the crime of corruption continued in the sportive field, falsity in the mercantile documents, disloyal administration and undue appropriation.

Changes in the investigation

As it reviews the 'Chain BE', are four the public prosecutors delegated of the Fiscalía Anticorrupción in Barcelona. Nevertheless, they indicate that finally it would be the expert in economic crimes Ricardo Sanz-Gadea the attendant to lead this procedure, the one who in addition to having an extensive path, is not very near to the surroundings futbolístico.