The Prosecutor’s Office has identified the two trusted persons of José María Enríquez Negreira, former vice president of the CTA, who they withdrew cash between 2016 and 2018 coming from payments from FC Barcelona, which reached more than 7.3 million euros in total from the beginning of his relationship -in 2001- and until the year it ended, and investigate where he went to stop that money
They are two former collegiate employees, his secretary and another workerreports The confidential, which adds that cash withdrawals were made on some occasions through withdrawals, and most through bearer checks. Both could be called by the public ministry to testify in the case.
In total they came out 550,000 euros were withdrawn in cashwhich corresponds to 30% of the amount ingested by Enríquez Negreira, points out the same newspaper, in exchange for supposed “technical arbitration reports” in those three years investigated by the Treasury.
The Prosecutor’s Office is now investigating where that cash money went and is considering the hypothesis that it was for pay others involved of the ‘Negreira case’ after the lawsuit filed against the club last Friday in the Examining Court number 1 of Barcelona has been admitted for processing.
The public ministry believes, according to the aforementioned newspaper, that other members of the arbitration group could have received money, which is in line with his accusation to the blaugrana entity that Barça had an agreement with Negreira to guarantee “actions tending to favor” the culé team “in the decision-making of the referees in the matches they played”. On the other hand, he also believes that he could have paid Barcelona executives seeking to continue his relationship with the club.