The good sporting sequence, with brilliant results for the Barcelonadoes not hide the fact that the institutional sector is still in a hole from which it is difficult to get out. He Negreira affairwith the exorbitant payments that Barcelona made every year to José María Enriquez Negreiravice president of Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) between 2001 and 2018, continues to cause a lot of talk. We now know new information which makes more than 180,000 euros difficult to justify by the Barcelona.
The latest research from Guard Civil about him case Negreira revealed around 180,000 euros that the Barcelona cannot justify. Apparently the report states that there are payments to the company Best Nortonwhich correspond to the intermediary Joseph Contreras and who would have channeled various payments intended for José María Enriquez Negreira.
THE Guard Civil I found payments to this company, Best Nortonlocated between 2013 and 2014 and which would amount in total to 181,500 euros. According to the police report, a total of 156,090 euros were paid in 2013, while the much lower balance was executed in 2014.
The problem is that, according to this report from Guard Civil who publishes The sixthhe Barcelona was unable to properly justify these payments to the company Best Nortonvia Joseph Contreras and that they were intended to José María Enriquez Negreira. “Given the age of these payments, the FCB was not able to provide all the payment receipts, nor the account movements at the origin of the transfers,” the researchers specify in the report.
According to the Guard Civilthis data is “of particular interest” to be able to “definitively close the investigation into payments from Fútbol Club Barcelona to Best Norton, since at present” there is a lack of detailed information on the banking movements of the receiving account belonging to Best Norton SL, which will be able to clarify the final destination of the funds. Given this lack of documentation on the latest “bank transactions associated with said bank account” which prevent the Civil Guard from “verifying the legitimacy of the transactions carried out”, the investigation suffers another obstacle and sows even more doubts about the Barcelona.
Laporta’s last words on the Negreira case
He case Negreira He is still alive and well at Can Barça since he exploded in February 2023, one of the biggest scandals in the history of Spanish football. Recently, in the latest statements on this matter, the president of the culé Joan Laporta justified that these payments were “to certain companies during a period of 20 years, it was not a year” and that “this affected different presidencies, that they preceded. me and succeeded me”, as well as that these were “services which were remunerated for technical assistance to arbitration” and that “it was about advice, national and international scouting”.
“Also regarding the recording and analysis of matches and if there was at any point an increase in the price of these services, it was because there was a need to report on World Cups and other competitions as well as in the analysis of rival teams. What is most relevant in the case of Negreira is that they wanted to condemn us before judging us and it was all a media strategy and that of our most direct rivals to discredit us,” he concluded . Laporta.
