The arrival of video arbitration technology in LaLiga gave a new opportunity to José María Enríquez Negreira to try to resume the relationship with FC Barcelona, broken in 2018, the same year in which he also ceased to be vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees, and wrote a new message to the blaugrana entity with a proposal.
At the end of the second season with this arbitration system, in 2020, the former Catalan referee offered the Catalans his services again, this time in relation to the VOR room: “I can help you with the VAR”suggested, according to published The world.
In this sense, Enríquez Negreira hinted at having a “hand with the VAR”, the same newspaper points out, taking advantage of the arbitration controversies around him and Real Madrid’s surprise to Barça in the standings after returning from the break due to the coronavirus pandemic. “With me it would have been better”I assure you.
“If you are interested, contact”, was the last thing the former CTA vice president said, who had previously contacted the club on two occasions after Barcelona ceased payments. In these communications, the Catalan threatened to uncover “all the irregularities” that he had experienced if he did not continue to collect, and urged the entity to continue payments “after all the favors rendered.”
Prosecutor’s complaint
The arbitration scandal that persecutes the Blaugrana team seems to end up in court, as the Prosecutor’s Office will denounce Negreira, FC Barcelona and Josep María Bartomeu, president of Barça between 2014 and 2020, for alleged crimes of continued corruption in business, since the payments occurred between 2001 and 2018, unfair administration and falsehoodreported this Monday The country.
Even with aspects to be closed, such as the inclusion in it of Negreira’s son, the complaint responds to the consideration of the Prosecutor’s Office of the existence of indications of the aforementioned crime for the payment of an amount close to seven million euros in exchange of assumptions arbitration advisory services.
