Spain's Guardia Civil concludes that Barcelona paid Negreira for refereeing consultancies

The 'Negreira affaire' goes a step further with the final report of the Guardia Civil. The report states that Barcelona paid 7.5 million euros for fraudulent reports, as the refereeing consultancies for which they had allegedly contacted the then vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees were not found.

'El Mundo' has been in charge of bringing the Guardia Civil report to light. It also concludes that Enriquez Negreira's wife earned 3 million euros without justification in the period under investigation by the authorities.

Ana Paula Rufas, Enriquez Negreira's wife, deposited this money between 1992 and 2023. The origin has not been found, so it is "in the process of study in order to determine the origin of these funds, which, apparently are unjustified by the income and yields of work and movable capital".

According to the aforementioned source, the report also contains the interrogation of Ernesto Valverde, who knew that Enriquez Negreira's son, Javier Enriquez, was submitting reports to the club but no one had offered them to him.

It also proves Enriquez Negreira's influence in the refereeing collective, something that the Spanish Federation had denied at different times during the investigation. "He exercised relevant functions within the CTA, such as communicating promotions and relegations to the referees, reviewing the scores of the rankings, attending the periodic concentrations, belonging to the Disciplinary and Merits Commission, as well as to the International Coordination," reads the report.

The Guardia Civil also claims that Enriquez Negreira plundered the coffers of the CTA and the Catalan Federation through alleged sales of office equipment or consultancies without documentary accreditation.

The investigation into Barcelona's payments to the then vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees is still open. The judge summoned former presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu, as well as Albert Soler, Oscar Grau and Javier Enriquez to testify.