LaLiga giants Barcelona have been charged with corruption after allegedly paying over €7.3m (£6.4m) between 2001 and 2018 to firms owned by Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, an ex-vice-president of Spain's referees' committee.
Barcelona have been charged with corruption over payments the club made to ex-vice-president of Spain's referees' committee Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, .

On Friday, the public prosecutor's office said Spanish prosecutors had filed a complaint against the Catalan giants and two of the LaLiga club's ex-presidents over alleged payments to a company owned by the senior refereeing official to influence match results,

The club allegedly paid over €7.3m (£6.4m) between 2001 and 2018 to firms owned by Enriquez Negreira, who held the role at the Spanish football association between 1993 and 2018.

Prosecutors claim that under a secret agreement and "in exchange for money", Negreira favoured Barcelona "in the decisions taken by referees in the games played by the club, as well as in the results of the competitions".

A senior Barcelona official told Reuters the club expected the complaint but said it was "nothing more than an absolutely preliminary investigative hypothesis" from the prosecutors and that "now is when the judicial investigation properly begins."

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