The president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta. EUROPA PRESS
It would be the Ethics and Disciplinary Committee of the best European soccer physique that examines the duties for the membership In the ‘Negreira case’, the fee of greater than 7 million euros from FC Barcelona to Enríquez Negreira between 2001 and 2018 is being investigated
UEFA has introduced this Thursday the opening of an investigation into FC Barcelona for a “potential violation of its authorized framework” in relation to the ‘Negreira’ case. It would be the Ethics and Disciplinary Committee of the best physique in European soccer that can study the duties for the membership for the funds made to José María Enríquez Negreira when he was quantity two within the Spanish arbitration institution. This is the step previous to the opening of a disciplinary course of, which might be opened within the occasion that the introduced investigation finds proof of malpractice.
UEFA has assigned the case to a workforce of inspectors from the ethics committee, which implies the activation of article 31.4 of the Disciplinary Regulations. The inspectors are appointed by the UEFA Executive Committee, headed by a chief inspector. The present ones are as follows:
Chief Inspector: Chris Georghiades (Cyprus)Inspectors: Toni García Alcaraz (Spain), Ksenija Damjanović (Serbia), Dimitrios Davakis (Greece), Bryan Faulkner (England), Igor Gryshchenko (Ukraine), Mirjam Koller (Switzerland), Jean-Samuel Leuba (Switzerland), Horst Lumper (Austria), Amir Navon (Israel), Jürgen Paepke (Germany), Giulio Palermo (Italy), Jan Pauly (Czech Republic), Ivan Robba (Gibraltar), Prune Rocipon (France), Rute Isabel Simões Soares (Portugal), Luka Steiner (Slovenia), Aldi Topçiu (Albania), Peter J. van Zunderd (Netherlands), Duygu Yaşar (Turkey).
In the ‘Negreira case’, the fee of greater than 7 million euros from FC Barcelona to Enríquez Negreira between 2001 and 2018 is investigated, a time during which he held the place of vice chairman of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA). The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has denounced each the membership and its former presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu for doable crimes of corruption in enterprise within the sports activities discipline, unfair administration, misappropriation and false business paperwork.