Who is Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, former vice-president of refereeing committee accused of taking bribes from Barcelona football club?

FC Barcelona has been blamed for paying 1.4 million Euros to an organization possessed by Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira who was the VP of the Specialized Council for Refs from 1994 to 2018. From 2016 to 2018, Barcelona paid the sum to an organization he claimed named DASNIL 95, Barcelona’s Examiner’s Office charges.

They guarantee that the cash was paid because of warning work that Negreira did on how players ought to act towards refs, and he likewise gave tips on what they may or may not be able to relying upon which official was refereeing a specific match.

The Catalan goliath could deal with serious repercussion on the off chance that the claims evened out against them are confirmed. They could confront a potential transfer from La Liga or a weighty docking of focuses could be on the cards.

Who is Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira?

Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira was born on September 6, 1945, in Barcelona. He was one of the notable countenances in Spanish football during the 1980s as he was a ref in the Principal Division among 1975 and the 1991-92 season.

Negreira balanced up the whistle at 46 years old. Around then, the age to keep practicing was not all that restricted and Enriquez Negreira extended his intervention commitment. As per the measurements, in the 132 games that he drove, he shipped off 50 players, one for each three games, and yellow cards to 433.

🚨| FC Barcelona may face La Liga relegation or having points docked after they were accused of paying the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees, Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, €1.4mn during the rule of former president Josep Bartomeu. #FCBlive [@Forbes]

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In 1994, Negreira became VP of the Specialized Board of trustees of Refs (CTA), a position he held without interference for the rest of the 2017-2018 season.

On August 2, 1995, the Catalan established the organization DASNIL 95 SL, devoted “to the discount exchange of food items”, a corporate reason that changed in the year 2000 giving the organization a steer to commit itself to “publicizing administrations for organizations, advancements, and gift things, printing texts and making sports recordings for marketing”.

Negreira named his child Javier Enriquez Romero as the sole executive of the organization in 2004. Romero stood firm on the foothold until February 18, 2019. He studied Organization and The executives of innovation organizations. He played in the lower classifications of Barca and Espanyol to later sign up for Sabadell, Sant Andreu, Hospitalet, and even Valencia. In 2016, the Enriquez family was engaged with an outrage that impacted the previous official and his child.