The RFEF accuses Albert Soler of covering up the payment of 3 million euros from Barça to Negreira

2023-12-05 18:10:11

As revealed Digital Freedomthe federative entity has appealed to the Provincial Court of Barcelona the decision of the head of the Court of Instruction No. 1 of Barcelona, ​​Joaquín Aguirre, not to charge Soler with prevarication and omission of the duty to prosecute crimes, since it considers that your silence and inaction They do constitute a crime, since they helped ensure impunity for the payments made to the Negreira family.

“If Soler had reported these crimes as soon as he took office as general director of Sports, as was his obligation, they could have obtained an adequate response from both the administrative and criminal spheres,” maintains the RFEF in a 13-page document to which he has had access Digital Freedom.

«Instead, Soler remained silent, thus trying to hide the alleged orchestrated plot to extract funds from Barcelona in the direction of those under investigation José María Enríquez Negreira and Javier Enríquez Romero. Evidently, the only purpose that such silence could pursue was to try to hide the existence of these payments and give those allegedly responsible an opportunity to escape the action of justice,” he adds.

The entity chaired by Pedro Rocha after the departure of Luis Rubiales highlights in this text that “Albert Soler left Barcelona in March 2021 and immediately began to hold a senior position in the CSD, being aware of the existence of these payments to the companies of Enríquez Negreira and Enríquez Romero. Despite this, it did not promote either the initiation of any disciplinary proceedings to administratively sanction the infractions committed when they had not yet expired, nor the prosecution of the crimes allegedly committed, thus breaking any expectation that the facts could be fully punished in accordance with the legal system. in force at that time and intending, we understand, that both the administrative infractions and the crimes committed would remain unpunished.

He knew about the payments to Negreira companies

Coinciding with the theses of the Prosecutor’s Office, the RFEF considers that Soler, who is being investigated in the case for a continuing crime of sports corruption and another of unfair administration, was aware of the amounts invoiced to the Negreira companies.

«The investigations carried out by the Attached Unit of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade (…) have revealed that between the months of June 2014 and March 2021, a period in which Soler held different positions of responsibility in Barcelona, ​​numerous payments were made to companies whose last beneficiaries would have been José María Enríquez Negreira and Javier Enríquez Romero.

The Federation denounces in its appeal that “a total of 3,050,524 euros “They would have left the Barcelona Football Club towards the accounts of the Negreira family during the time in which Soler served as director.”