2023-10-18 12:21:09
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 42 minutes ago, Updated now
Joan Laporta Xavi Urgeles / Zuma / Panoramic
FC Barcelona is still immersed in the arbitration scandal of the Negreira affair. This Wednesday, it is the turn of its president Joan Laporta to also be indicted in the case.
The current president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, has in turn been indicted in the investigation into the arbitration scandal involving the Catalan club, Spanish justice announced on Wednesday.
FC Barcelona and its ex-presidents Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell had already been indicted for corruption in this affair, as was José Maria Enriquez Negreira, the former senior official of Spanish arbitration at the center of the investigation, and his son.
Mr. Laporta, who had not been charged until now, is now as president of the club during a first mandate which lasted from 2003 to 2010.
In his report published Wednesday, the judge in charge of the investigation explains that he cannot benefit, in his opinion, from the statute of limitations, given the seriousness of the accusations.
According to the prosecution, the Catalan club paid a total of more than 7.3 million euros to Mr. Negreira between 2001 and 2018. Payments, made via the company Dasnil 95, belonging to the former referee, which ended when the latter lost his position as No.2 in Spanish arbitration.
Baptized «affair Negreira»this scandal has been poisoning the life of Barça for months, which denies any irregularity.
The investigation took on a new dimension at the end of September, with the search of the headquarters of the Technical Committee of Arbitrators (CTA), the direction of Spanish arbitration, located in the premises of the Federation (RFEF) in Las Rozas, near Madrid .
”
data-script=”
>
#Barça #president #Joan #Laporta #indicted #refereeing #scandal