2023-03-02
UEFA has requested information from the Spanish Federation (RFEF) regarding the investigation into alleged payments from Barcelona to a former referee, the RFEF secretary general, Andreu Camps, said on Thursday.
“UEFA has requested the information from the RFEF, the RFEF has answered and provided all the information it has at its disposal at this time,” Camps said at a press conference at the Ciudad del Fútbol de las Rozas, headquarters of the Federation.
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The head of the federation added that the RFEF “has offered to be able to carry out any other action that UEFA itself tells us.”
Accompanied by the president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), Luis Medina Cantalejo, Camps recalled that the RFEF’s Integrity Department is studying the so-called ‘Negreira case’ following receiving the information requested from Barcelona, the CTA and the RFEF.
Camps added that the RFEF has sent all the information requested by the Barcelona prosecutor’s office investigating tax irregularities to a company belonging to a former arbitration officer for alleged Barcelona payments.
The newspaper El Mundo published on February 17 that Barcelona paid more than 6 million euros (more than 6.3 million dollars) since 2001 to the company Dasnil 95 of José María Enríquez Negreira, who was vice president of the CTA between 1994 and 2018, to advise the club on arbitration matters.
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Among the information requested, the prosecutor’s office would have asked “regarding Negreira and his functions in the CTA, and what was the system for appointing arbitrators,” Camps said.
The general secretary explained that the RFEF has not filed a complaint in the case so as not to hinder the work of the public ministry, but “if the prosecution presents the corresponding complaint for a judge to investigate, the RFEF will appear” in the case.
– Defense of the arbitration body –
The matter has cast a shadow over the refereeing establishment that the current number one of the Spanish referees has wanted to clear.
“There is an anti-referee climate and people are saying that they were bought. There is no evidence, nor any proof to say that an arbitrator is dishonest,” said Medina Cantalejo.
For the president of the CTA, “if there is something, it is people who supposedly taking advantage of their position have profited.”
Medina Cantalejo recalled that Negreira’s powers towards the referees were limited to “saying which group you were in and calling the referees to notify them of promotions and relegations” in category.
Both Camps and Medina Cantalejo pointed out in this appearance to talk regarding the so-called ‘Negreira case’ that “all the arbitrators except one” responded to a questionnaire that was passed to them asking them to say if they had had any kind of contact with Negreira or his son.
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“(This arbitrator) was called to ask him what was happening and to date he has not responded to a request from his company, which is the Federation,” said Medina Cantalejo, without wanting to reveal the name of the arbitrator in question.
During the press conference, the Spanish international arbitrator, José María Sánchez Martínez, read a manifesto on behalf of his professional colleagues, in which he expressed “revulsion” for the case and insisted that the alleged actions of a person “do not They can tarnish our image and the good repute in this fraudulent way” of the Spanish arbitrators.
Can Barcelona be sanctioned?
Eduardo Inda, director of OK DIARIO and who always releases exclusive information in El Chiringuito, assured that neither UEFA nor FIFA are going to sit idly by with the arbitration scandal surrounding Barcelona.
“The highest soccer bodies, UEFA and FIFA, are thinking of sanctioning Fútbol Club Barcelona. I don’t know if there would be an economic penalty, but it would go hand in hand with sports, which is what I’m talking regarding. UEFA and FIFA would be thinking of looking to the future, not the past. In the near future, yes. A sanction less extensive than I thought, but impressive, exemplary and exemplary. They are considering the possibility of expelling Barcelona from European competitions for one season,” said the journalist.
