Real Madrid have called an urgent meeting of their board of directors for Sunday to discuss what the club describes as “well-founded suspicions of corruption” into rivals Barcelona.
Last month, broadcaster SER Catalunya alleged Barca had paid €1.6million to the company of Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira – the former vice-president of Spain’s Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) – between 2016 and 2018.
Newspaper El Pais claimed Negreira’s company – DASNIL 95 SL – produced written reports and DVD assessments of referees prior to games.
The public prosecutor’s office said on Friday that Spanish prosecutors had filed a complaint against Barca and two of their ex-presidents over the alleged payments.
Madrid released a statement on Saturday to announce their intention to hold a board meeting to discuss the matter.
“Given the seriousness of the accusations made by the Barcelona prosecutor’s office against FC Barcelona and two of its presidents for well-founded suspicions of corruption and their relations with whoever was the vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees, Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, the president has convened urgently to the board of directors tomorrow, Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 12:00 p.m., in order to decide on the actions that Real Madrid deems appropriate in relation to this matter,” the statement read.
