The Public Ministry places the burofax published by this newspaper on February 17 as one of the pillars of its accusation for corrupting referees.
The Prosecutor maintains its historic complaint against FC Barcelona and two of its former presidents in the threatening communications directed by JMara Enrquez Negreira to FC Barcelona revealed exclusively by EL MUNDO. The Public Ministry places as one of the pillars of its accusation for corrupting referees el burofax published by this periodical el pasado 17 de february.
Whoever was number two of the Spanish referees flew into a rage when Joseph Maria Bartomeu made the decision to stop paying him at the end of June 2018, shortly after Negreira was relieved as right hand of Victoriano Snchez Arminio in the arbitral body. After sending a consignment of invoices to Bara and verifying that the decision to break with him was firm, he decided to blackmail the club. He sent a letter warning the club to pull the plug.
Enrquez Negreira wrote at the beginning of 2019 directly to Bartomeu y advanced him to uncover a big scandal that would have serious consequences for the entity. Every time he, he assured, he was willing to expose the irregularities that he claimed to have experienced first-hand and that he was in a position to prove. He added that Bartomeu’s decision to dispense with his false advisory services after so many years together – the relationship lasted from at least 2001 to 2018 – fit her as an insult and added that he would act without regard.
This tone was even more virulent in a second burofax, also revealed by this newspaper, in which months before he reminded the Barça president that he had been charging the club every month for years of favors and confidences.
Again, he threatened to uncover the thunder box and stressed that he was willing to make the evidence available to a court with all the consequences. At the same time I pointed directly to all the presidents with whom, according to him, he had negotiated his terms, from John Gaspart to Bartomeu through Mr. The doorfrom whom he wrote that he had received instructions.
The club refused to give in to Negreira’s pressure and stood firm in its decision to cut payments to the historic arbitration leader. The relationship between both parties broke down until a year later, coinciding with the end of the 2019/2020 season, Negreira contacted Bara again.
In a desperate attempt to recover his million-dollar charges, he offered to help with VAR. He pointed out that Bara could have done better with video arbitration in the season that had just ended and that if they were interested in his ability to influence again, they should contact him. I received the silence for an answer.
Together with these two communications, which have triggered the seriousness of the scandal, this newspaper has published the invoices for which Negreira charged more than 7 million euros for fictitious advisors of arbitration videos. But, also, the fictitious receipts from educational advisors with which his son was charged through a senior member of the club, now deceased, Josep Contreras. And even the internal communications of Bara when the Treasury began the inspection that began to incubate the biggest scandal in the history of Spanish football.
Intermediate charges of the club debated by mail what they should answer to the Tax Agency when it required payments from the number two of the referees. There is no contract. Do we tell him or do we play crazy?came to raise an executive who still works at the club.
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