BarcelonaThe Coroner investigating the Negreira case has finally decided to indict the son of the former Vice-President of Arbitrators, Javier Enríquez. He has also added a new possible crime as he sees signs of money laundering in the payments he has received over 20 years from Barça, among others. He announced this in the injunction published this Friday, in which he reports that he will go back to 2001 and extend the secrecy of the summary by a month.
So far, Javier Enríquez, son of José Maria Enríquez Negreira – the former Primera referee and former vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees – had been excluded from the proceedings at the request of the prosecutor, who had summoned him as a witness. However, Judge Sílvia López Mejía believes there is enough evidence to charge him, complying with a request from the League, one of the parties involved in the case. Javier Enríquez distanced himself from his father’s company when testifying, but the judge believes that he is part of the company’s structure, especially given that he has taken several courses in the field coaching to the referees who eventually rose to the highest category and also held various roles with the national team and the CTA.
The case, which is investigating Barça’s payments of more than seven million euros to the Negreiras, was initially opened for the crimes of corruption between individuals in the field of sport, disloyal administration and the falsification of business documents, which now include those of money laundering.
In the case, in addition to Barça, the former presidents of Barcelona Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu, the former manager of the club Oscar Grau and the former professional sports director Albert Soler as well as Enríquez Negreira and from now on his son are also accused.
