Judge Joaquín Aguirre said in an order last Tuesday that the Civil Guard discovered the transfers of FC Barcelona to Concepción Díaz (Conchi), secretary of José María Enríquez Negreira.
According to the car that EL ESPAÑOL had access to, FC Barcelona carried out four payments between 2005 and 2006 into an account belonging to the employee of the former vice-president of the referees. Negreira, for his part, appears as a prosecutor. The total amount of these transfers amounts to 35,555 euros.
The Civil Guard emphasizes that the operation “lacks coherence”since they were justified as payments of invoices to the company Soccercam SL, owned by Javier Enríquez Romero, son of Negreira.
Investigators assure that “there is no relationship of commercial, business or professional dependence between this company and Ms. Díaz, nor between Barcelona and this person that could justify the payments.”
Judge Aguirre, president of the Instruction Court No. 1 of Barcelona, points out that the provincial court itself has already indicated that there was “obvious signs of criminality relating to the commission of an offence of corruption in sport” and “another independent offence of money laundering”.
In his writing, the judge reaffirms that “he cannot think of any other convincing reason than that of change the national sports competition (Liga and Copa del Rey)” as the reason for FC Barcelona’s payments to the former vice-president of referees between 1993 and 2018.
On the other hand, he describes as an “excuse” the version of FC Barcelona according to which the payments were motivated by alleged refereeing reports. The Civil Guard has already confirmed that they do not exist.
More accounts studied
Aguirre asks to investigate as well ten new bank accountsSix of them are headed by Negreira’s secretary and four by Jose Martinez Alfonsopersonal friend of the former number two of the referees and of the other person who cashed the bearer checks of the accounts of the companies investigated.
Concepción Díaz and José Martínez performed “secondary functions for investigator Enríquez Negreira,” according to the judge, regarding the withdrawal of cash from the companies Nilsad and Dasnil 95.
The Barcelona Court of Instruction Number 1 also decided this week to charge Ana Paula Rufas, current partner of José María Enríquez Negreira, with the crime of money laundering.
The Civil Guard found three million euros “unjustified” and “of unknown origin” in their bank accounts between 1992 and 2023, as indicated by the Civil Guard in a 168-page report revealed by EL ESPAÑOL.
Likewise, Judge Joaquín Aguirre decided to extend the investigation, known as the Negreira case, for six more months, until March 2025, once the Benemérita makes these new discoveries.
