⚖️ Negreira’s son and Bartomeu give the case a major twist | OneFootball

Former FC Barcelona presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu appeared this Thursday as suspects before the judge in the Negreira case, as did Javier Enríquez, Negreira’s son.

The aim of the investigation is to clarify the more than 7 million euros that the club paid to the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees between 2001 and 2018.

The first to testify was Javier Enríquez, Negreira’s son, who, according to ‘El Español’, admitted to having received up to 7,000 euros per referee report, totaling 60,000 euros. However, he insisted that these payments had no relation to the 7.5 million his father received, describing the relationship between Barça and the former refereeing official as “unethical.”

Where does Laporta’s version stand?

His statements dismantle the version of current president Joan Laporta, who justified the payments as compensation for reports by Enríquez’s son. According to the latter, his earnings for that work amounted to just about 60,000 euros.

Bartomeu, who closed the round of statements, maintained that there were no irregularities. “It has been clarified that these were sports and refereeing advisory services, with pre- and post-match reports for the first and second teams,” he said after leaving the courthouse.

The case remains open and doubts about the payments to Negreira continue unresolved. The Blaugrana club remains at the center of the most delicate controversy in its recent history.

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