For the first time since the eruption of the refereeing scandal and the accusations of corruption that have shaken FC Barcelona for several weeks, Real Madrid came out of its silence on Sunday. The Madrid club announced that it would ask to "be part of the investigation procedure" as an "injured party".
On Saturday, president Florentino Pérez called an extraordinary meeting of the Madrid club's board of directors the following day. The objective was to react to the indictment Friday by the Spanish justice of Barça and several of its former leaders for "corruption", "breach of trust" and "forgery of commercial documents" in the case of suspicious payments of money of the Catalan club to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, former senior official of the Spanish refereeing, also prosecuted.
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On Sunday, Real expressed in a statement "its deep concern about the seriousness of the facts", and agreed that "to defend its legitimate interests, it will ask to be part of the investigation procedure when the judge opens it to the injured parties", which is close to the constitution in civil party in French law.
These prosecutions, decided by the Barcelona prosecutor's office, target Barça as a legal entity, as well as Josep Maria Bartomeu, head of FC Barcelona between 2014 and 2020, and Sandro Rosell, president of the Catalan club between 2010 and 2014. Oscar Grau and Albert Soler, members of Bartomeu's former team, are also being prosecuted.
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