FC Barcelona

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FC Barcelona received profile of match officials before each ... (EL PAÍS in English)

Witnesses tell prosecutors that a company belonging to ex-vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees, José María Enríquez Negreira, delivered a ...

According to witness testimony, the envelopes were delivered a few days before matches played by both Barça and its reserve team. By then, the Dasnil executive in charge of liaising with the club was no longer the veteran ex-referee but his son Javier Enríquez, a sports coach who has been the sole administrator of the company since 2004. According to these sources, under the presidencies of Joan Gaspart, Joan Laporta and Sandro Rosell, the club hired the services of Dasnil, owned by Enríquez Negreira, who simultaneously served as vice-president of the CTA, the governing body of Spanish Football Federation match officials. He said that the club had requested his services to “ensure that no decisions were made against it” and that the club would receive “neutral” treatment from match officials. The former referee explained to tax inspectors that he did not have documentation to back up the existence of those services because the “technical advice” was provided verbally, not in writing. The material was transferred to the Barcelona coaching staff, who decided if it was useful with a view to the upcoming match.

Barcelona made THIRTY-THREE payments totalling €1.6m to ... (Goal.com)

It has been revealed that Barcelona once made 33 payments to a company owned by former vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees.

However, the expectation is that no action will be taken as it will be difficult to prove that the Blaugrana received any preferential treatment from officials. A new report from [El Mundo](https://www.elmundo.es/deportes/2023/02/15/63ed3ff5fc6c8319228b45d5.html) has revealed that the payments totalled over €1.6 million, with it suggested that the integrity of top-flight competition in Spain was called into question by Barca dealing with a prominent figure from the world of matchday officiating. [number of occasions between 2016 and 2018](https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/barcelona-release-statement-club-payment-referees-committee/blta3803d3d755aa01f).

Spanish prosecutors investigate FC Barcelona payments (The New Daily)

Prosecutors are investigating 1.4 million euros in payments Barcelona made to a company owned by an official of Spain's refereeing body.

The Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) said in a statement that Enriquez Negreira has had no official role since 2018 and that “no active referee or member of the CTA bodies can carry out any work that is likely to enter into a conflict of interest”. It said the club had “hired the services of an external consultant” that supplied it with “technical reports related to professional refereeing”, calling it “a common practice among professional football clubs”. Spanish radio Cadena SER said on Wednesday that the soccer club made the payments between 2016 and 2018 to a company of Jose Maria Enríquez Negreira, who was at the time vice-president of a refereeing committee of the Spanish football association.

Prosecutor probes €1.4 million payment made to refereeing official ... (Olive Press)

A prosecutor is investigating FC Barcelona over €1.4 million in fees paid to a top refereeing official between 2016 and 2019. The La Liga club made the.

The La Liga club said it ‘hired the services of an external consultant’ who supplied it with reports about match referees that would officiate at Barcelona games. Barcelona said in a statement that it was aware of the probe, which started last year following a tax audit at Dasnil. He was the vice-president of a refereeing committee as part of the Spanish FA.

FC Barcelona paid €1.4m to La Liga referee off the books - (The Eagle Online)

A shocking news report revealed that FC Barcelona paid €1.4 million to the former vice president of Spain's referees committee between 2016 and 2018.

I’ve been told we have done a public statement, and I follow what the club says. I think it has happened in years I was not involved with the club, but I will always defend the institution.” Xavi, who was hired as the club’s head coach in 2021, left Barcelona for Al-Sadd back in 2015 and has no direct connection to the referee payments.

FC Barcelona accused of paying €1.4 million to former LaLiga ... (The Business Standard)

From 1994 until 2018, Negreira served in his current position at the Royal Spanish Football Federation. According to the Barcelona Prosecutor's Office, ...

From 1994 until 2018, Negreira served in his current position at the Royal Spanish Football Federation. "Currently, this type of outsourced services falls to a professional assigned to the Soccer Area. This information was provided by the SER Catalunya radio program Que t'hi jugues on Wednesday afternoon.