LaLiga main Javier Tebas calls for Barcelona president Joan Laporta to Stop around corruption allegations as the Spanish giants are accused of having to pay about £1MILLION to an ex-referees chief for ‘neutral’ therapy
Barcelona have been accused of paying £1million to ex-LaLiga referees chief Former referee Jose María Enriquez Negreira has denied favourable treatment LaLiga chief Javier Tebas named for Barcelona chief Joan Laporta to stage down
LaLiga main Javier Tebas has referred to as for Barcelona president Joan Laporta to resign if he are unable to describe the club’s payments to ex-referees main Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira.
The Catalan giants have been accused of paying more than £1million across a few seasons to the previous vice president of LaLiga referees in a key corruption scandal.
A report, which was very first released on Cadena SER radio plan Que t’hi jugues, alleges that Barcelona paid Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, through his company DASNIL 95, €1.4m (£1.2m) all through Josep Bartomeu’s presidency.
It is alleged that Negreira, who would go on to turn out to be the vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees soon after retiring, was paid €532,728 (£473,340) in 2016, €541,752 (£481,358) in 2017, and then a more €318,200 (£282,915) in 2018.
All all those payments are alleged by the prosecutor’s office environment to have been made by Barcelona to DASNIL 95, with a report by Spain’s Tax Agency, which is investigating Negreira’s corporation, and seen by Diario AS, boasting they required ‘to make sure that no refereeing decisions were designed towards, that is, ‘that almost everything was neutral’.
Barcelona have been accused of having to pay far more than £1million throughout a few seasons to the previous vice president of LaLiga referees in a significant corruption scandal
LaLiga chief Javier Tebas (pictured) is contacting for Barcelona president Joan Laporta to resign
Tebas has given that publicly insisted that Laporta should offer some solutions to the club’s 33 payments to Negreira or resign from his role at the Spanish giants, if he fails to do so.
He told Spanish news outlet Activity.es: ‘If [Laporta] will not demonstrate why it was paid, I assume he would have to resign.’
The chief also speculated that the Barcelona scandal could be observed as even worse than the financial wrongdoings at Serie A giants Juventus, which noticed them deducted 15 details for their steps.
‘For now I would say that Juventus is far more major for staying sentenced, but I see the indications as a lot more really serious in Barca.
‘A vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees appears right here.’
Obtaining already testified, Negreira and his son Javier Enríquez Romero have reportedly denied that Barcelona at any time gained any preferential therapy from referees.
In his testimony, according to Cadena SER, Negreira claimed that his alleged settlement with Barcelona was to see him advise how their gamers ought to behave in recreation with referees.
It is claimed he tailored his guidance relying on the referee they have been assigned for impending matches.
That is, what they could and need to not do based on the referee selected for the matches
One challenge that has arisen is that the Tax Company has attested that there is no documentation currently in their possession which particulars any these types of romantic relationship of consultancy among Negreira and Barcelona.
The timing is disastrous for Barcelona possessing used new yrs mired in controversy – but they came out preventing in their own assertion on Wednesday.
‘Faced with the data broadcast today on the method Quê t’hi jugues de Ser Catalunya, FC Barcelona, aware of the facts remaining investigated by the Prosecutor’s Workplace concerning payments created to external companies, wants to make it obvious:
That Barcelona employed in the previous the solutions of an exterior technical advisor, who supplied, in online video format, technological experiences referring to gamers in decreased categories of the Spanish State for the Club’s technological secretariat.Moreover, the romance with the exact exterior supplier was prolonged with technical reviews similar to expert refereeing in buy to enhance data necessary by the coaching workers of the initial team and the subsidiary, a prevalent apply in professional soccer golf equipment.At this time, this sort of outsourced assistance falls to a specialist attached to the Football Region.Barcelona regrets that this data appears specifically at the ideal sporting moment of the season.Barcelona will get lawful motion against everyone who damages the impression of the Club with doable insinuations opposite to the status of the entity that may crop up as a result of this information.
Barcelona president Joan Laporta has vowed to defend the club’s identify in the course of the method
Also, president Joan Laporta vowed to ‘defend’ the club’s name amid the ongoing investigation.
‘The current report that Barca paid a referee for an investigation? It is not a coincidence that this facts comes out now, when Barca are undertaking effectively,’ he claimed. ‘We reserve all the required actions to defend our club.’
If discovered to have acted illicitly Barcelona, who are currently at loggerheads with LaLiga president Javier Tebas about their continued aid for a European Super League, could encounter stringent penalties.
Equally Barcelona and Negreira deny wrongdoing. The investigation proceeds.
