The former Barça president does not see “the slightest indication of harm” against the white club in his allegations to the judge of the case
Josep Maria Bartomeu’s defense has presented a brief with which the presence of Real Madrid in the Negreira case as a private prosecution. The former president of Barcelona considers, as he exposes in his allegations to the magistrate Silvia Lopez Mejiathat the white entity is not an aggrieved party in the process that investigates the payments of 7.5 million to the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees between 2001 and 2018. According to Bartomeu, in the facts investigated there is not “the slightest indication of harm” against the Madrid entity that justifies its presence in the case, as La Razón has advanced and EL PERIÓDICO, of the newspaper, has confirmed. Iberian press group.
According to the allegations presented, “the admission without any justification of individual private accusations of each one of the football teams would lead to a procedure of impossible investigation.” For the same reason that Real Madrid was allowed to appear, the lawyer Fuster-Fabra, a well-known “perico” follower, maintains that “Real Club Deportivo Espanyol, Celta de Vigo, Elche Club de Fútbol, etc”, entities –he stresses– “that participate in the Professional Soccer League and in the Real spanish soccer federation“.
offended entity
In the letter from Bartomeu’s lawyer, Jose Maria Fuster-Fabrait is demanded that the judge dismiss the claim of Real Madrid to appear in the cause, just as he did on March 23, when he used his status as an “offended or harmed entity” to exercise the private prosecution. “The actions that are the subject of this case, tending to favor FC Barcelona, one of the main competitors, in the decision-making of the referees and, in this way, in the results of the competition, undoubtedly harmed it”, exposed the club chaired by Florentino Pérez.
Fuster-Fabra stresses in his allegations that both the Professional Football League (LNFP) and the RFEF, “entities to which Real Madrid is affiliated and which organize the competitions in which this team participates are already involved in the case”. Together with Madrid, a member of the Madrid entity also intends to enter as a private prosecution. This is a lawyer with more than 40 years as a member of Madrid, named Luis José Sáenz de Tejada Vallejo, and who practiced as a judge, until the Supreme Court expelled him from the judicial career after being sentenced to 33 months in prison for a crime of psychological violence in the field of gender violence against his ex-wife, also a judge.