Real Madrid requests access to economic information and Barça’s internal investigation in the ‘Negreira case’

Real Madrid has asked the judge investigating the ‘Negreira case’ to have access to a multitude and varied information on the financial data of FC Barcelona, ​​as revealed this Wednesday by former Spanish referee Xavier Estrada Fernández, appearing as a popular accusation in this trial.

The former Catalan referee detailed in his official ‘X’ profile that the Madrid team asks the judge to “see all the audits and reports, access the more than 600 documents provided by Barça, learn about the club’s internal investigation and check whether the payments of millions were justified.” “In conclusion, show all the papers and clarify what was paid and why,” he stressed.

Estrada Fernández also provides in this post images of the official request made on December 22 to the judge by the entity chaired by Florentino Pérez that requires ‘KPMG’, ‘PWC’, ‘Deloitte’ and ‘Kroll’ to provide “due diligence” reports and forensic audits carried out on the economic management of FC Barcelona that were commissioned by the Board of Directors of said company between the years 2010 and 2021. entity or by any of its directors”.

It also requests that the documentation provided by the Catalan club on July 13, 2023 be “digitized, for later making available to the parties”, and that, within a period of ten days, the club chaired by Joan Laporta “provide the entire internal investigation file followed by the external office hired on the events that are the subject of this procedure, providing its reports of conclusions (provisional and definitive) and attaching the documentation that accredits the investigative actions carried out. (interviews carried out, documentation analyzed, checks carried out, etc.) and their results.

Likewise, it requires FC Barcelona, within the same period, to provide “budgets prepared between the years 2010 and 2018” where payments to the entities ‘Dasnil 95, S.L’, ‘Nilsad, SCP’, ‘Soccercam, S.L’, ‘Best Norton, S.L’, ‘Tresep 2014, SL’ and ‘Radamanto, S.L’, all of which The Blaugrana team would have made payments to Enríquez Negreira and his son Javier.

It also demands internal audits carried out in the FC. Barcelona between the years 2010 and 2018 “in which the payments made” to these aforementioned companies are identified, analyzed and validated, “the annual accounts and the corresponding external independent audit reports referring to them that were formulated and approved by FC Barcelona” between those years, and “the minutes” of the meetings of the club’s Tax Governance Committee “in which said payments appear to have been analyzed from a fiscal perspective.”

Finally, Real Madrid requires ‘Camps Legal Advisors, SLP’ to provide, “for incorporation into the procedure”, all those extrajudicial or judicial communications and claims that on behalf of ‘Dasnil 95, SL’ and/or José María Enríquez Negreira addressed to FC Barcelona and the Royal Spanish Football Federation, providing any other documentation that had been provided by ‘Dasnil 95, SL and/or José María Enríquez Negreira in relation to the claims made”, and also asks that Carlos Naval, delegate of the first team, testify again.