A report by the Mossos d’Esquadra presented to the judge in the Barçagate case concludes that former president Josep Maria Bartomeu, the Blaugrana president between 2014 and 2020, diverted money from the club for personal purposes, as explained by the Què t’hi program you play The police assure that the president used a contract from the club itself with an external company.
The company in question is Amalgama Marketing SL, owned by Miquel Sambola and his brother Òscar, who had worked on Bartomeu’s electoral campaign. In addition, both are the manager and honorary president of the Club Esportiu Laietà, located next to the Camp Nou, which was compensated with 1.5 million by Barça due to the demolition of the Miniestadi.
According to the report, Amalgama Marketing signed an agreement for two seasons, 2018-19 and 2019-20, at a rate of 84,000 euros per year, in addition to charging 233,000 euros for specific jobs. The police conclude that of the 84,000 euros only 14% remained in the company. The rest was diverted to journalists and businessmen by order of Bartomeu.
The report especially points to the journalist Marçal Lorente, who would have collected 29% of the money paid to Amalgama, a total of 43,560 euros in addition to another 50,000 euros that he already received from the club for the Without Concessions program.
“Don’t forget that I am the journalistic ally who has burned the most defending the project and my partiality and involvement has been such that now it is very difficult to return to my position as an objective and independent journalist,” Lorente wrote to Bartomeu on October 28. of 2015 according to the police document, which suggests the participation of the journalist in Bartomeu’s electoral campaign in exchange for later working for the club.
On the other hand, and continuing with the report to which Què t’hi jugues has had access, the businessman Josep Juanmartí is the maximum beneficiary of Barça’s payments through Amalgama Marketing, 43% that represent 65,340 euros. The businessman’s son worked at the Adelte company, which belongs to the Bartomeu family.
The journalist Albert de la Torre received 4,000 euros for writing a book commissioned by Bartomeu about his father and the journalist Albert Lesán was awarded a contract of 20,000 euros a year for two years as Barça’s institutional publicity on its Tevecat television program. “Oysters, how I miss the previous campaign when we were with Barto, you, me, Mario, Arús … that incredible campaign we did, that we destroyed the carabotox, host. How I miss it … and what damage we did to them, “he wrote Jaume Masferrer, Bartomeu’s trusted man, is fired, according to the report.
