Real Madrid on Wednesday claimed that they have evidence that LaLiga rivals Barcelona paid bribes to referees, in what is now known as as the ‘Negreira case’.
The Negreira case is an ongoing legal investigation into payments totaling over €7.3 million allegedly made by Barcelona to companies owned by the former vice president of Spain’s Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), José María Enríquez Negreira, between 2001 and 2018.
Barca insist the payments were for legitimate technical and referee consulting reports, while prosecutors are investigating allegations of corruption and unfair administration.
But Madrid have now sent a letter to UEFA stating their claims.
FULL LETTER:
In this letter, the club has informed UEFA of the existence of relevant evidence that conclusively reinforces the indications already known from the beginning about the existence of long-term payments, opaque and lacking any verifiable justification, made by the F. C Barcelona to the one who was vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, José María Enríquez Negreira, through different corporate structures.
Real Madrid emphasizes that these facts constitute, from the perspective of sports disciplinary law, a systemic risk of maximum gravity for the integrity of competitions, by evidencing the existence of a structure of undue influence on the arbitration system, incompatible with the essential principles of competitive equality, neutrality, impartiality and unpredictability of the sports result.
In this context, Real Madrid has urged the immediate resumption of the disciplinary file initiated at the time by UEFA, considering it unacceptable that
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