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The former management of FC Barcelona, led by President Josep Maria Bartomeu, who resigned in October 2020, is in the crosshairs of justice.
The former president of FC Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu, is in the sights of Spanish justice.
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The Spanish public 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.
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, whose conclusions will be presented “publicly” next Tuesday.
Barça taken by the throat
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.
Barça is gripped by serious financial problems. The club ended the 2020/2021 season with net losses amounting to 481 million euros. And since the return of Joan Laporta to the post of president of the Catalan club, which he had already occupied from 2003 to 2010, the wage bill has been reduced to 155 million euros, whereas it was 759 million in March.
(AFP)