Negreira received 6,659,488 euros from Barça since 2001

The former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) received 6,659,488 euros, without VAT, from FC Barcelona since 2001. According to the data held by the Barça club, the instrumental companies of José María Enríquez Negreira received

euros during the 2001/02 season,

being president.

That figure rose slightly the following season, amounting to 139,535 euros.

When Joan Laporta became president of the club, Negreira's turnover increased considerably and went from earning 145,758 euros in 2003/04 until that figure ended up shooting up to 573,398 euros in 2009/10.

maintained these amounts practically uniformly until the mandate of Josep María Bartomeu, who in two years, as this newspaper revealed, paid him 1.6 million euros for alleged advice.

On January 18, 2021, the Tax Agency requested the documentation from the Barça club to support the payments to Enríquez Negreira, and a month later the entity chaired at the time by Josep Maria Bartomeu made a package of 33 invoices

available to the Treasury.

The proceedings, which were extended last October 2022, were opened after a complaint from an individual and are still ongoing.

The Tax Agency maintains in the reports that it prepared when inspecting the company Dasnil, 95, SL that "Barcelona wanted to make sure" with the aforementioned payments "that no arbitration decisions were made against it, that is, that everything was neutral

"

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