The Court of Instruction number 1 of Barcelona must decide whether to admit a complaint filed by an individual in which he claims that the current president of FC Barcelona, ​​Joan Laporta, as well as the ex-president Joan Gaspart be accused of a continued crime of unfair administration in the ‘Negreira case’. However, the Prosecutor’s Office opposed this lawsuit, considering that the participation of the two Barça leaders, the one prior to 2010 in the first presidency of Laporta, would be prescribed

The complaint filed by Miguel A.P. points out that there was a “concert” for the purchase of referees among all the Barça boards of directors since 2001, in the Gaspart era, although the prosecutor maintains that at the moment there is no evidence that demonstrates a “succession in the alleged illegal actions”. “Nor can it be understood that the members of the successive boards of directors can form a kind of consortium that assumes the criminal responsibility of the previous and the following ones,” says the Prosecutor’s Office.

In addition, the prosecutor recalls that between 2003 and 2010 there were no crimes of sports corruption or unfair administration, which are those that the court investigates. That is why he believes that the accusation for these specific crimes against Laporta and Gaspart are prescribed and asks that the complaint filed by the individual be rejected. The court already opened the door a few weeks ago to an investigation for money laundering of some of those involved in the ‘Negreira case’.

In his brief presented to the court, to which this medium had access, the prosecutor recalls that “each board of directors adopted its own decisions, without the respective presidencies having the opportunity or occasion to participate in those taken by the previous or subsequent boards; each board directive could ‘dominate’ their own actions and only each of them, individually, could have been able to avoid the consequences, harmful or not, that their actions could unleash”.

The court is investigating the former vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees, José María Enríquez Negreira, and the former presidents of FC Barcelona Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu, as well as other Barça managers for unfair administration and corruption in the sports field, having paid 7.2 million of euros to Negreira and his son, also accused, to presumably receive arbitration aid.

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