All the referees who refereed Barcelona in the period of Josep Maria Bartomeu as president of the club from 2014 to 2020, they can be called to testify as witnesses by the defense of the former Blaugrana president to ask each and every one of them if during those years they received any pressure to referee in favor of the Blaugrana club.
Bartomeu’s lawyerJosé María Fuster-Fabra, is evaluating this option at the request of his client in order to demonstrate that the party leadership was never directly influencedas declared by José María Enríquez Negreira before the Tax Agency.
According to the summary of the cause, of 1850 pages in its first volume and that yesterday early in the morning it was already absolutely common in the newsrooms of all the media as if it were the AS Guide of LaLiga, there is no indication of the purchase of arbitrators that can be provided after the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office.
The Tax Agency warned the Prosecutor’s Office in April 2022 that he had not been able to prove that the payments from FC Barcelona to the former vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) José María Enríquez Negreira had influenced the appointment of referees or altered the results of the matches.
According to the report that includes the summary of the case of the ‘Negreira case’, the prosecutor maintains that the former referee billed Barça for more than 7.5 million euros without a response “to an accredited economic activity”, although it points out that “there is no evidence whatsoever that it could influence the results”.
Bartomeu’s defense clings to this statement, who intends to summon all the referees who refereed Barcelona matches at that time as witnesses for the defense so that they recognize before a judge if they did so under the influence of Enríquez Negreira.
