He slave Continue forward. Despite the attempts of some former manager of the Barcelona For trying to archive the case, the Provincial Court has dismissed the petition and the investigation continues its course. In February 2023, the payment of 7.6 million euros from Barcelona to José María Enriquez NegreiraVice President of the Technical Referee Committee at that time.
First, it was revealed that the Barcelona He had paid the second of the referees a total of 1.4 million euros during the years 2016 and 2018. Those payments were accredited by the Tax Agency. Then it would be that this period in which the Catalan club paid Enríquez Negreira It was much greater. Barça was paid for the second of the referees from 2001 to 2018, 17, and the total amount of payments ascended to the 7.6 million euros.
The protagonist of slave He acknowledged before the Treasury that the objective of Barcelona was none other than to pay him to “no decisions against him.” However, before the Civil Guard he said nothing and excused himself in a dementia that prevented him from remembering what had happened not to declare and avoid imputing him. But the Judge Aguirreinstructor of the case at the beginning, he summoned him to declare as accused after verifying that his dementia was not severe enough to have forgotten what happened during those years.
But the Judge Aguirre He retired at the beginning of this 2025 and replaced the magistrate Alejandra Gil. Now the Provincial Court of Barcelona has dismissed the appeal presented by Albert Soler, former manager of the club, who requested the archive of the case for a form defect. An appeal to which the former presidents of Barcelona also adhered, Josep Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell, in addition to Oscar Grau.
The instruction must be extended six months
With this resource, the former executives of the Barcelona It was intended to cancel the extension that had been given for the instruction of the Negreira case. Not having opened new proceedings, Albert Soler, Bartomeu, Rossell and Grau They defended that it did not give rise to this term. Another of the arguments used to try to file the case was that the resolution of said extension had been manually signed and were delayed.
It should be remembered that in April The statements of Rossell and Bartomeu were suspendedscheduled for June 17 and 30, because his lawyer had other accusations set. This means that if there is no extension, the investigated would not have declared and the instruction of the case would be clearly altered because the statements of some of the protagonists of this story would be lacking.
But the Provincial Court has dismissed the appeal and ensures that The instruction must be extended at least six months to continue with the statements Of all the persons investigated, as issued in February the Court of Instruction number 1 of Barcelona. Once heard what all the investigated have to say, the judge will determine if new proceedings are practiced.
