Joan Laporta, the president of Barça, was charged on Wednesday in the case of alleged bribery of referees.
The threat is becoming clearer for FC Barcelona and its executives. This Wednesday, his boss Joan Laporta was indicted in the Negreira affair, named after the former number two in Spanish arbitration. Like his predecessors Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell, the current president of the Catalan club will have to answer for acts of corruption for which the Blaugrana institution finds itself on the grill of the Iberian justice.
It is as president over the period 2003-2010 that Joan Laporta will be heard by the investigators, the judge overseeing the investigations having ruled out any recourse to the statute of limitations in this case given the seriousness of the accusations against him. Barça and its historic leaders.
7.3 million euros in doubtful transfers
Revealed in recent months by the Spanish press, the case concerns the alleged payment of 7.3 million euros by the aforementioned officials to José Maria Enriquez Negreira between 2001 and 2018, while the latter held the position of vice -president of the Technical Committee of referees on the other side of the Pyrenees.
