The Barcelona Compliance Area opened an internal investigation on Wednesday, November 30 (three days ago) to find out if Guillem Laporta, son of the Blaugrana president, has participated in the brokerage firm for club players and if the regulations were not being complied with Of the entity. The investigation, which has already reached some conclusions, was produced as a result of the publication in El Confidencial of information that claimed so.
According to the Compliance Area, “in no case has Guillem Laporta participated in intermediation operations for transfers or assignments related to the Marcos Alonso-Lenglet-Dest operations (or in any other)”.
To reach this conclusion, Barça’s head of Compliance, Sergi Atienza, who worked at the Laporta law firm, stated in a statement that a series of interviews have been carried out with “the people affected and with other members of the football and finance area of ????the club”. In this sense, the football director, Mateu Alemany, states that “no record of a relationship between the club and the company Top Level Football 77 S.L.” has ever been made.
Compliance met with the Laportas, father and son, and found that “there is a full conviction that Mr. Guillem Laporta cannot participate in any professional operation with club players.”
Lastly, regarding Raúl Verdú, an intermediary linked to the president’s son in the article in El Confidencial, it is said that the two carry out their profession as intermediaries as freelancers and with “independence from each other.” However, indeed, it is admitted that the Top Level Football company was constituted by both but it is assured that up to now “it is inactive, as can be proven in the Mercantile Registry”.
The investigation does acknowledge that Barça cadet A player Marc Bernal “is being effectively represented exclusively by Raul Verdú, Verdú being a personal friend of the player’s father, also a former soccer player.”
With all this, it is concluded that “with the information that has been obtained to date, it has not been possible to prove any breach of the internal regulations of the club or of the current legislation regarding incompatibilities, conflicts of interest and self-hiring of the club’s managers ”
