FC Barcelona has been accused of paying 1.4 million Euros to a company owned by Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira who was the Vice President of the Technical Committee for Referees from 1994 to 2018. From 2016 to 2018, Barcelona paid the amount to a company he owned named DASNIL 95, Barcelona’s Prosecutor’s Office alleges.
They claim that the money was paid due to advisory work that Negreira carried out on how players should behave towards referees, and he also gave tips on what they can or cannot do depending on which official was refereeing a certain match.
The Catalan giant could face serious punishment if the allegations leveled against them are proven to be true. They could face a possible relegation from La Liga or a hefty docking of points 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 well-known faces in Spanish football in the 1980s as he was a referee in the First Division between 1975 and the 1991-92 season.
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Negreira hung up the whistle at the age of 46. At that time, the age to continue exercising was not so limited and Enriquez Negreira stretched his arbitration dedication. According to the statistics, in the 132 games that he led, he sent off 50 players, one for every three games, and yellow cards to 433.
In 1994, Negreira became vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), a position he held without interruption until the end of the 2017-2018 season.
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On August 2, 1995, the Catalan founded the company DASNIL 95 SL, dedicated “to the wholesale trade of food products”, a corporate purpose that changed in the year 2000 giving the company a swerve to dedicate itself to “advertising services for companies, promotions, and gift items, printing texts and making sports videos for marketing”.
Negreira appointed his son Javier Enriquez Romero as the sole administrator of the company in 2004. Romero held the position until February 18, 2019. He studied Administration and Management of technology companies. He played in the lower categories of Barca and Espanyol to later enroll in Sabadell, Sant Andreu, Hospitalet, and even Valencia. In 2016, the Enriquez family was involved in a scandal that affected the former referee and his son.
