Negreira case: Barcelona payments and referee promotion concerns
2 min Machine translated About Spain Crime & incidents
For almost two decades, millions of euros flowed out of the coffers of FC Barcelona to Spain’s second-highest-ranking referee official.
In exchange for what? Three years of judicial investigation.
What happens when Sique tells Barcelona: “Hey, look, we have this”?
Well, the phrase is: “We’re a man condemned to death asking you for one last wish.”
There was no—there wasn’t any report from any year, because he had never made any report for Barça in his life.
No reports, no videos, no documents. We intend to cooperate and help as much as possible the court, the— the justice system, in order to clarify these events.
And I have no intention of publicizing all the irregularities I’ve learned about. and experienced firsthand in relation to no one at the club.
Mari, it'll be lengthy, but I do like this idea.
Are we looking at a novel way of possibly paying football referees illicitly, in a case that could be a possible case of systemic corruption based on the corrective index?
Or corruption. I know the system. Why was I promoted?
Because I was good? No. That too, right? Yes, that too, too, but—why was I promoted?
Because someone behind me said, “You’ll rise.”
We’ve reordered the list now with the corrective index applied.
Curiously, the referees rated with the highest corrective index were promoted to the first division that year.
Millions of euros, two decades, a system under suspicion and too many questions still left unanswered.
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Original transcript (Spanish)
Durante casi dos décadas, millones de euros salieron de las arcas del Fútbol Club Barcelona con destino al número dos de los árbitros españoles.
¿A cambio de qué? Tres años de investigación judicial.
¿Qué sucede cuando Sique le comunica al Barcelona: "Oye, mira, tenemos esto"?
Bueno, de hecho, la frase es: "Somos un condenado a muerte que os pide el último deseo".
Que no había-- no existía ningún informe de ningún año porque él no había hecho nunca en su vida ningún informe para el Barça.
Ningún informe, ningún vídeo, ningún documento.
Nosaltres tenim la intenció de col·laborar i d'ajudar al màxim al tribunal, a la, a la justícia, per tal d'esclarir aquests fets.
Y no tengo voluntad de dar publicidad a todas las irregularidades que he conocido y vivido de primera mano en relación con nadie del club.
Mari, serà molt voluminós, però em quedo sí que amb aquesta idea.
¿Nos encontramos ante una forma novedosa de posible retribución ilegítima a árbitros de fútbol en el que podría ser un posible cas de corrupció sistèmica en base al índice corrector?
O corruptor. Yo conozco el sistema. ¿Yo por qué he subido?
¿Porque he sido bueno? No. También, ¿no? Sí, también, también, los-- pero ¿yo por qué he subido?
Porque ha habido alguien por detrás que ha dicho: "Tú vas a subir".
Reordenamos la lista ya con el índice corrector aplicado.
Curiosamente, los árbitros calificados con el mayor índice corrector fueron ascendidos a primera división aquel año.
Millones de euros, dos décadas, un sistema bajo sospecha y demasiadas preguntas todavía por responder.
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