Vice President of the Arbitration Technical Committee from 1993 to 2018, José Maria Enriquez Negreira charged close to 7 million euros in the 17 years he was on the payroll of the FC Barcelona.
With the arrival of Luis Rubiales to the Royal Spanish Football Federation, the former collegiate was relieved of his post and the threats began.
Negreira sent a burofax to the board of Joseph Maria Bartomeu affirmed that I would pull the blanket with all the “irregularities” if the payments ceased, to which Barça, apparently, did not answer.
Well, in full investigation of the case, after the statements by Bartomeu and the former directors Albert Soler and Òscar Grau, the former referee he has invoked his right not to speak before the judge.
According to ‘El Español’, “suffering from early Alzheimer’s according to the medical report that his lawyer presented to the Judicial Police Unit attached to the Prosecutor’s Office”.
That is why, depending on the degree of his illness, Negreira could evade criminal responsibility for the payments made by FC Barcelona.
To do this, the Prosecutor’s Office should bring its investigations into Barça’s payments to the former vice president of the referees before a judge, and at that moment it would be evaluated at what point Enríquez Negreira’s Alzheimer’s is.