Breaking: Barcelona charged for corruption

Spanish club Barcelona is charged with corruption over payments the club made to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, a former vice-president of Spain’s referees’ committee.

Last month documents showing that Barca have paid Negreira and a company he owns a reported total of 8.4m euros (£7.4m) between 2001 and 2018 emerged online.

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Barcelona have been charged with corruption for payments made to former referee José María Enríquez Negreira.

Former Barcelona presidents Jose Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell have also been charged. pic.twitter.com/GFeRva73Dt

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A Barcelona court heard on Friday that Barca, former club officials and Negreira had been indicted for “corruption”.

“FC Barcelona obtained and maintained a strictly confidential verbal agreement with Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira so that, in his capacity as vice-president of the technical arbitral committee (CTA) and in exchange for money, the latter carries out actions tending to benefit FC Barcelona in decisions by the referees,” reads the statement.