2023-04-18 06:24:56
According to the Spanish daily AS, the European body led by Aleksander Ceferin might sanction the club for a year without the European Cup in the Negreira case through the Court of Appeal.
UEFA announced at the end of March the opening of an investigation into a potential “violation of the legal framework” which governs it by Barça, in the context of the Negreira case. The arbitration scandal that splatters the Catalan club in Spain. FC Barcelona and some of its leaders were indicted on March 10 by the Spanish courts for “corruption”, “breach of trust” and “false business records” in the case of suspicious money payments to José Maria Enriquez Negreira, ex-senior official of Spanish arbitration, also prosecuted.
Barça president Joan Laporta, denying on Monday any attempt at cheating by the club, said he was convinced that the Catalan club would not be sanctioned by UEFA. However, the UEFA Ethics and Disciplinary Committee considered that there were sufficient arguments to proceed quickly with the opening of an investigation, in accordance with article 31.4 of its regulations. According ASUEFA might even override its own ethics and disciplinary committee to sanction Barça and deprive it of the Champions League for a year.
Laporta reportedly wrote to UEFA
If the conclusions of the investigation carried out by him are relentless, the authority might circumvent the usual procedure and go directly to the court of appeal. This is competent “to rule on particularly urgent cases which are submitted to it directly by the president of the Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body”, can we read on the UEFA website. If UEFA acts in this way, Barça might appeal to this same control body, before bringing the case before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to obtain the suspension of a possible sanction, imagine AS, and this in order to ensure that we can compete in the C1 next season.
UEFA boss Aleksander Ceferin, renewed for a third term as head of European football, said in an interview with Slovenian media Ekipa that the scandal affecting Barça “is one of the most serious situations which he had “never seen in football”. At the beginning of April, Catalunya Ràdio revealed that Joan Laporta had addressed UEFA and Fifa through a letter in which he justifies the payments made for 17 years (2001-2018) to the vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees. Joan Laporta enjoins the two bodies “to be responsible and not to join in the public contempt they suffer” and “to refrain from making public statements and to allow Barça to defend itself within the framework of the judiciary process”.
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