Despite no longer occupying the main newspaper headlines, the Negreira case continues its course in parallel in the courts. The Number One Examining Court of Barcelona continues to collect all the data, including those collected in the report requested from the Civil Guard. The document, to which El Mundo has had access, explains that “the operation of the CTA (Technical Committee of Referees) seems irregular with arbitrary decisions that would not always have had impartial sports support.”
“I have already said it many times about the Negreira case. Never in my life, in 17 years in the Barça first team and now as a coach, have I not felt benefited. I have never had that feeling. In total disagreement with the Civil Guard “. For his part, the Barcelona coach, Xavi Hernández, explained before the match against Osasuna.
The Civil Guard draws its deductions based on the statements collected “in certain press reports” by Negreira’s son, Javier Enríquez Romero, towards the referees, such as “Barcelona has a lot at stake and your pulse cannot shake. You you have plenty. You know exactly what you have to do”.
“Furthermore, it does not seem to make sense that Javier Enríquez Romero or José María Enríquez Negreira would have been able to perform such crucial functions in the Spanish Federation while simultaneously providing their services to the FCB”, adds this part of a letter where the more than 7 million he paid are analyzed. the Blaugrana club to the companies of which he was vice president of the CTA between 1994 and 2018 for allegedly sports and arbitration reports from rivals.
“Their services are not covered by documentary support beyond the invoices,” says the meritorious, who has not received “a copy of videos, documents or reports in which the specific advisory work is specified” from Barça. In turn, they point out that the Catalan club recognized before the Treasury the “inappropriateness of the expense” when paying a tax penalty.
On the other hand, the force of the State affects that Enríquez Negreira “did not experience an increase in assets” despite receiving millions in amounts for so many years from Barça and remarks that he used “bearer checks” to withdraw part of the money, in addition to withdrawals of large amounts of cash.
Finally, the Civil Guard highlights the importance of Enríquez Negreira in the arbitration body, especially his function of promoting and descending collegiate categories with its corresponding salary modification. “It must be taken into account that only First Division referees can become international referees with the salary increase that this entails,” he concludes.
