The investigation by the Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office suggests that Joseph Contreras, Former director of Barça, now deceased, he acted as an intermediary between the club and the son of Enríquez Negreira to channel payments for the alleged arbitration reports, as revealed by the newspaper ‘El País’for which he ended up paying between 1.4 million euros between 2016 and 2018 after being discovered by a tax inspection of the Tax Agency.
This information indicates that the payments to Negreira’s son were not made directly but were distributed through Tresep, a holding company in the name of Joseph Contreraswho was a manager of Barça at the time of Josep Lluís Núñez, Joan Gaspart and Josep Maria Bartomeu.
Commissions up to 50%
In addition, when he was not a director of the Barça club, he was a member of the sports commission, linked above all to Barça Atlètic, as well as being president of Gavà and even acting as vice president of the Catalan football federation, building bridges with the Spanish federation thanks to his great friendship with the former president Angel Villar.
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Contreras, who passed away last Christmas, received, according to the information collected by ‘El País’, a commission. Sometimes it was so high that it reached up to 50% of the bill. Barça, after a first public statement upon learning of the news advanced by SER Catalunya, has maintained silence, although it has initiated an investigation into this case, which will be carried out “externally”.
Javier EnriquezNegreira’s son, was the owner and sole shareholder of Soccercam, although according to the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office he did not charge directly from Barça but used Tresep’s vehicle, which received, as the newspaper ‘El Mundo’ indicated, 728,000 euros from Barça alone. between 2015 and 2028 for 19 invoices on “provision of educational-sports services”, in addition to “the issuance of reports”.