The Spanish prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into the management of FC Barcelona by the former management led by President Josep Maria Bartomeu, who resigned in October 2020, he told AFP on Friday. The announcement of the opening of this investigation is the consequence of the complaint filed on Wednesday by the current management of Barça, chaired since last March by Joan Laporta, on the basis of a report on the state of the club’s finances, the conclusions of which will be presented”publicly” next Tuesday.
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During the presentation of a first internal audit in October, Barça general manager Ferran Reverter claimed that when the new management arrived in March, the club was “in a situation of accounting bankruptcy”, with debt and future commitments amounting to 1.35 billion euros, cash flow problems and a huge wage bill. The prosecution’s economic crime department will now have to determine whether the club’s former management can be prosecuted for the club’s financial situation.
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