Jose Negreira król futbolu, a Luciano Moggi nie.

Denmark’s leading newspaper, Politiken's coverage of Barca-Negreira case today.. Excerpts from the article: “A threatening letter, four red cardboard boxes and mysterious money transfers are key elements in a high-profile corruption case in Spanish football. It is a perfectly ordinary Tuesday in Barcelona. But the letter brought by a courier from the delivery company Meteor to Arístides Maillol Street, a boulevard lined with lush palm trees, is anything but ordinary. “It is essential that the envelope be delivered only to the recipient’s address,” the shipping documents instructed. Because this was an important letter, which the courier delivered on February 12, 2019. It was addressed to the club’s then president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, and consisted of barely two pages of small print and a scrawled signature at the bottom. Not much paper. But enough to threaten to reveal secrets that could rock Spanish football. “I have no intention of publicizing all the irregularities I have witnessed and experienced firsthand involving people at the club, but you will force me to do so if you do not reconsider your decision and honor the agreement we had for me to continue providing my services until the end of your presidential term.” The sender is José María Enríquez Negreira, the recently dismissed vice president of Spain’s Technical Committee of Referees. It is unclear WHAT he was threatening to reveal. But it is clear that he had maintained some kind of agreement with FC Barcelona for several years. He had provided services to the club. When Bartomeu terminated that agreement, the threats began. Now, almost eight years later, the letter is a key document in an exhaustive investigation into FC Barcelona over a corruption offense. The extensive case against FC Barcelona rests primarily on a large body of circumstantial evidence which, according to the prosecutor, demonstrates that the club has bought favorable treatment from referees. The club, for its part, maintains that the money was used solely to produce several technical reports on referees. No one has yet been able to establish what these payments were actually for. THE FOUR RED CARDBOARD BOXES: Flanked by four cardboard boxes containing refereeing reports, FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta tried to convince the world that the corruption case against the club was a baseless smear campaign. But the explanation falls apart from within. The account given by Negreira’s son, Javier Enríquez Romero, directly contradicted what Laporta and FC Barcelona had tried to convince the world of. Romero’s testimony dealt a heavy blow to Laporta’s explanation. A LIFE JACKET WITH HOLES: According to Laporta, the 629 refereeing reports were intended for FC Barcelona’s coaches. But when two former FC Barcelona coaches appeared before the judge, they made it clear that they had never seen the reports. Neither Luis Enrique nor Ernesto Valverde. Why had the club hired such an expensive service that, apparently, no one used? And if that service—the 629 reports—had nothing to do with the multimillion-euro payment to Negreira, what had the club paid for? On November 13, the last two witnesses in the corruption case against FC Barcelona will be questioned. The investigating judge, Alejandra Gil, will assess whether there are sufficient grounds to continue the case or whether it should be dismissed in whole or in part. This process usually takes between one week and one month. Much of this material points directly to the prosecution’s theory of a corrupt refereeing committee. But the answer to the fundamental question remains: Why did FC Barcelona pay €7.4 million to a senior official in Spain’s refereeing organization over nearly two decades?” Source: politiken.dk/sport/fodbold/a… @futbolgate_ES @MikaRM26