Marca journalists talk about a new scandal surrounding FC Barcelona. According to the quoted source, the Catalan group would transfer 1.4 million euros to the accounts of the former La Liga referee, a character who was for a long time the vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees in Spain.

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The brand named the character who would receive the sum of 1.4 million euros: José María Henriques Negreira.

From 1994 to 2018, he was the vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees of Spain.

Negreira was a referee in the Spanish Premier League from 1979 to 1992.

Following an investigation by Barcelona’s public prosecutor’s office, it was discovered that between 2016 and 2018, FC Barcelona allegedly transferred €1.4 million to DASNIL 95 SL, a company owned by a former LaLiga referee.

According to Marca, the money was to be transferred in the following installments: €532,728 in 2016, €541,752 in 2017 and €318,200 in 2018.