MADRID.- He real Madrid announced this Wednesday that it had sent a letter to the UEFA with “relevant evidence” about the so-called “Negreira Case”, asking the European institution to “immediately” resume the file against the FC Barcelona.
In the so-called “Negreira” case, the Spanish justice system investigates alleged payments by Barça to companies José María Enriquez Negreiraformer number two of the referees.
Try to find out if these payments could have been used to try to obtain some advantage in the competition, something that Barcelona denies, claiming that they were due to arbitration reports.
In this context, the white club points out that the document sent to UEFA provides “relevant evidence that conclusively reinforces the indications” about “payments that were prolonged over time, opaque and lacking any verifiable justification” from FC Barcelona to Negreira.
“Real Madrid emphasizes that these events constitute, from the perspective of sporting disciplinary law, a systemic risk of maximum severity for the integrity of the competitions, by evidencing the existence of a structure of undue influence on the refereeing establishment, incompatible with the essential principles of competitive equality, neutrality, impartiality and unpredictability of the sporting result,” denounces the white club.
For this reason, it asks UEFA for “the immediate resumption of the disciplinary file initiated at the time”, considering “unacceptable that this situation has continued over time, since its persistence seriously compromises the credibility of football.”
It also requests that UEFA “adopt the appropriate disciplinary and restorative measures in order to guarantee the integrity, transparency and correct functioning of the competitions.”
More fuel to the fire
This episode is yet another escalation in the tension between both clubs, which has only increased since the month of May.
“We are making a 500-page dossier that I am going to send to UEFA as soon as the competition ends,” he stated. Florentino Perez in May, when calling the elections for the presidency of Real Madrid, which he himself won weeks later.
“It is the most serious case of corruption in football,” Pérez insisted.
FC Barcelona responded to these statements last Friday, filing a lawsuit against Pérez to demand that he retract it.
