José María Enríquez Negreira (Barcelona, September 6, 1945) refereed for 13 seasons in the First Division (1977-1992). When he retired, he went on to direct the Catalan College of Referees and later became the right hand of Victoriano Sánchez Arminio. as vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees until May 2018. While he held this institutional position He also earned from FC Barcelona for at least three years (2016, 17 and 18) in which, through the company DASNIL 95 SL, he earned 1,392,680 euros in three seasons.
The program Qué t’hi jugues of SER Catalunya announced the news that justice is investigating for the alleged crime of corruption between individuals and AS, who has been working on the same subject for some time, can confirm it and provide data that shows a very foggy scenario for many years.
Enriquez Negreira was the Sole partner of the company DASNIL 95 SL, a company that in 2016 billed FC Barcelona €532,728.02; in 2017 they were €541,752 and in 2018, €318,200. The concept was that of “technical advice”, because according to the report of the Tax Agency “the FCB (sic) wanted to make sure that no arbitration decisions were made against them, that is, ‘that everything was neutral’”.
From club management sources at that time this commercial relationship is recognized, it is maintained that these works were carried out and that the reports of DASNIL 95 SL are archived and that they can present them at any time before a court. It was paid (much or little) but the work was done.
for now, Albert Soler, former director of professional sports at the club, and Òscar Grau, former CEO of the entity, have testified in the case. According to the report of the Tax Agency No document has been provided to prove that a commercial relationship existed, despite the fact that the payments were made. They even declared themselves and tried to deduct taxes. And there it all exploded.
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The investigation
The Treasury entered the case once it suspected that DASNIL 95 SL was trying to deduct amounts from its taxes that did not seem clear. This fact precipitated a tax inspection that discovered the payments of the Barcelona entity to the company of the then vice president of the referees. “Enríquez Negreira did not provide any document proving that he provided a service to FCB”, according to the same AEAT. The former referee assured Cadena SER that there is no documentation because his job consisted of verbally advising the Barça club, among other issues, on how the players should behave in front of each referee.
Beyond the ethics of this practice, it so happens that Javier Enríquez Romero, son of José María Enriquez Negreira, at the same time carried out coaching courses for the referees in their concentrations and was even the therapist for some of them at a private level. That is, the father (vice president of the CTA) advised Barcelona and the son, the referees. In addition, the son told the Treasury inspectors that he did deliver specific reports to those responsible for the club.
From the previous Barcelona board of directors it is stated that this contract was inherited from 2003 and that it was Josep Maria Bartomeu who canceled it in 2018, year that coincides with the date on which Enríquez Negreira leaves his position in the Arbitration Committee in May. The last invoice issued by DASNIL 95 SL to FC Barcelona is dated June 5, 2018. Sources from Sandro Rosell’s board of directors also support this version in statements to the program ‘Què t’hi Jugues’. Gaspart assures that he does not know.
Other shady cases
This is not the first shady case that affects Enríquez and his son. In July 2016, this same newspaper published that Francesc Casajuana Rifawho for twelve years led the Catalan referees, succeeding Enríquez bought materials for the committee from a company owned by the son of his predecessor.
Casajuana printed 4,000 regulations, when the collegiate in Catalonia is no more than 1,400. He said he edited some videos that, it seems, were never viewed and still cannot be found. He also bought the minutes at 0.17 euros in his day, when at that time their cost was 0.09 euros. All this was verified in invoices and documents that the Catalan Federation issued in its day and that were published by AS in July 2016.
