Barcelona as an establishment will seem in court docket dealing with prices of sporting corruption, as a result of sequence of funds made to 2 corporations owned by former Vice-President of the Referees Committee (CTA) Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira over a interval of 17 years. The 2 corporations obtained a complete of between €7-8m from Barcelona for what they declare have been consultancy reviews.
The Spanish public prosecutor has been unable to search out adequate proof to again their story up to this point although, and the case has gone to trial. A police investigation has additionally been unable to establish the place all of that cash ended up, and the fees of fraud are additionally being investigated.
Barcelona known as to testify in court docket in January
The Blaugrana have been known as to testify in court docket as a a outcome, and they’re going to achieve this on the twenty seventh of January, say Diario AS. Former Barcelona President Joan Gaspart has been requested to testify as a witness as nicely. He was in control of the membership from 2000 to 2003, an overlap of two years into contracting of Negreira’s providers.
In the meantime Institutional Vice-President Elena Fort, who has usually acted as a spokesperson for the membership, will seem in court docket representing the Catalan membership. The decide has additionally requested that the entire contractual paperwork referring to Negreira’s skilled relationship with the court docket be handed over to the police.
Pedri has performed 49 straight matches for Barça and Spain and clearly wanted relaxation, even when it comes by way of suspension. @bonagerman
— barcacentre (@barcacentre) October 28, 2025
Joan Laporta, Ernesto Valverde and Luis Enrique may even testify
Present Barcelona President Joan Laporta may even seem as a witness within the case on the twelfth of December, as will former coaches Ernesto Valverde and Luis Enrique, now of Athletic Membership and Paris Saint-Germain. Final month Laporta’s predecessors Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell have been questioned by the defence in court docket, and each claimed that no wrongdoing had occurred beneath their tenure. Bartomeu additionally famous that he solely met Negreira in individual by probability on one event.