News of the dispute linking FC Barcelona to José María Enríquez Negreira, former Vice President of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) between 1994 and 2018, continues to surface. The CTA and the club itself already issued two separate statements on Wednesday, while Enriquez Negreira and his son, who is also implicated in the case, released some statements yesterday. they acted with the media and the authorities. Only one side was out for the demonstration, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) itself, which did so on Thursday morning in a different statement.

RFEF reminded again that With the arrival of Luis Rubiales as President in 2018, the Arbitration Technical Committee (CTA) was updated, sacking, inter alia, José María Enríquez Negreira, and has since required all its employees in their departments to sign a declaration of no conflicts of interest and a justification for income that does not come from the organization.

From RFEF They consider “it is necessary to bring to the attention of the media and the public” a few clarifications after the information this Wednesday from “Ser Catalunya”. pointing out that the prosecutor’s office is investigating an alleged corruption offense between persons in the company of the former vice president of the CTA, who received payments from FC Barcelona for consulting during his tenure, while the club assures that this is only commissioned by the consultant “technical reports related to professional arbitration.

In the same way, the subject of the federation confirmed that Its integrity department launched on Wednesday “confidential information forwarding inquiries to both those in charge of the CTA and FC Barcelona.” and that he also agreed to “participate in a possible legal proceeding on the matter”.

“As soon as there is enough information, RFEF will take appropriate action within the framework of the rule of law, which must prevail in all these situations.”sentenced body presided over by Luis Rubiales.

Declaration of No Conflict of Interest

Thus, the organization emphasized that after “the arrival of the current government team headed by Luis Rubiales after the elections in May 2018”the CTA dome has been refurbishedterminating the former directors, among whom was Mr. Enriques Negreira.”

In addition, RFEF emphasizes that since then “requires, in addition to a declaration of the absence of a conflict of interest for all members of various bodies and employees, another “extended” document which must be signed by “all members of the disciplinary and judicial appointment committees”.

In that, “He is required to detail any income, regardless of what is received in the RFEF, that may be associated with football, in order to be able to assess and verify the factual and real absence of a conflict of interest.” “All members submitted and signed the said documents,” they confirmed.

You must remember this andl Barcelona responded on Wednesday that the information had come assuring that “in the past, he has hired an external technical consultant who provided technical reports in video format regarding lower-tier players in Spain to the technical secretariat.”