The club is accused of having paid a former referee to “carry out actions” to favor the club, Spanish justice announced on Friday.
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Barça is once again in turmoil. The Catalan club, as a legal person, has been charged by the Spanish courts for “corruption”, “breach of trust” And “false in business records”, in the company of some of its ex-leaders (including ex-presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu), as well as the ex-arbitrator José Maria Enriquez Negreira.
Friday, March 10, Spanish justice indicated that Barça had paid M.Negreira, Vice President of the Technical Arbitral Committee (CTA) of the Spanish Football Federation between 1994 and 2018, so that it “carries out actions to favor FC Barcelona in the decisions of referees during matches […]and therefore in the results of the competitions”, reports the Spanish daily El País.
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