The Anti -corruption prosecutor has asked the judge to instruct the slave what Joan Laporta, Luis Enrique and Ernesto Valverde declare as witnesses. The first of them was president of Barcelona during much of the stage in which the club paid 8.4 million to which he was vice president of Technical Referees CommitteeJosé María Enriquez Negreira, while the last two were coaches of the first team. What is intended to verify with the technicians is if they really knew the alleged reports with which the entity justified the millionaire payments to the former arbitrator.
From the Public Ministry The Court of Instruction number 1 of Barcelona has been requested that the three are summoned as witnesses. They seek that the “reason for the payments” made by Barcelona during At least 17 years which was then the number 2 of arbitration in our country. These periodic payments were also increased during Laporta's first mandate and they were justified in alleged reports prepared by Enriquez Negreira of those that there is still no trace.
At first, it was intended to impute Laportabut the alleged crimes committed would already be prescribed. However, the judge is now requested Alejandra Gilthat replaces Judge Aguirre in the instruction after his retirement, who cites the president culé as a witness, to be able to clarify those payments, being a direct knowledgeable of the ABOONES THAT HE PERFORMS THE NEGREIRA During the years in which his first presidency lasted, from 2003 to 2010.
In addition, in the case of Luis Enrique and Ernesto ValverdeThe objective is to testify if they were aware of those alleged reports before the judge. The current coach of Athletic He already pointed out that he had no record of them when he was coach of the first Barca team, something that coincided with the Tata Martino. Now, the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor's Office considers that their testimony can be key to finding out if those arbitral reports that supposedly motivated the payments were really made by Enríquez Negreira.
