Game by game, as Cholo Simeone defends. Judge Joaquín Aguirre advances his investigation into the payment by FC Barcelona of 7.3 million euros to the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees, José María Enríque Negreira. Now he has taken a step further and has begun to investigate when the Barça club, if it did so, deducted the invoices issued by the companies of the former referee leader and his son, both of whom were accused. To this end, the magistrate has required the Tax Agency to indicate since which year Barça has submitted invoices from Dasnil, Nilsad and Soccercam to the Treasury for corporate tax relief.
In the event that it is proven that Barça tried to deduct the invoices that are under suspicion, the investigations of the Negreira case They could even be extended to other crimes. It should be remembered that this matter broke out, precisely, due to an investigation by the Tax Agency and the alleged improper deduction by the Barça entity of these invoices. The period that was tracked was between 2015 and 2018, but it is possible that FC Barcelona did this maneuver previously. At that time the amounts possibly did not exceed 120,000 euros per year, so it could not be considered a crime of Treasury fraud. Data from previous years is unknown. Since 2001, FC Barcelona paid amounts to Enríquez Negreira for supposed referee advice.
“Pure invention”
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Judge Aguirre specified in one of his last orders, specifically in the one regarding the accusation of the current president Joan Laporta, that the invoices presented by Enríquez Negreira and his son, through instrumental companies, could be classified as “pure invention.” . The rober adds that it must also be taken into account that in this case “there is not even a contract for the provision of services”, that the price “seems completely out of the market” and that the Tax Agency described it “as a mere liberality.” This situation was accepted, according to that resolution, by the Barça club, which had to pay the fine imposed by the Treasury and returned the amount unduly deducted. At the tax level, possible fraud from before 2015 cannot be prosecuted, because it would be statute-barred, but it can be pursued in the criminal sphere.
Among the crimes he is investigating, including bribery (alternatively sports corruption), unfair administration and falsification of commercial documents, the judge included in Laporta’s order one that has gone unnoticed, but is important. It is the accounting crime that he attributes solely to FC Barcelona. This crime basically consists of failing to comply with the tax or accounting obligations required by law. Typical behaviors may include omitting information or committing inappropriate acts, such as hiding the real financial situation. Typical behaviors may include omitting information or committing inappropriate acts, such as hiding the real financial situation.