Treasury reveals Barca deducted bribes paid to Negreira as expenses for a decade

FC Barcelona deducted almost eight million in bribes from its expenses José María Enríquez Negreira for at least a decade. The Tax Agency sent a report to the judge Joaquin Aguirreto which EL MUNDO had exclusive access, in which he responds to the instructor since when Barça deducted the millionaire payments with false invoices to the former number two of the referees.

Despite the fact that the former vice-president of the Technical Commission of Arbitration (CTA) was paid by the Barça club for almost two decades, the instructor requested that the taxation of these payments be traced at least from 2003 to 2015.
The Treasury explains that all of Barça’s financial years during this period were not subject to corporate tax and VAT control, but assures that at least between 2005 and 2015, the club deducted from the cent each year the payments to the corporate structure. noire.

Thus, it is known that he declared payments to the company in 2005 as expenses related to alleged arbitration advice. Football camera and between 2006 and 2015 to the rest of the entities that make up the conspiracy with which Negreira billed the club he presides over today. John Laporta. That is to say to companies Dasnil et Nilsadon which the heart of the operations of noire.

The Treasury points out that during the period analyzed, “the amount and issuer of the invoices received from Dasnil, Nilsad et Football camera accounted for and recorded in the books of FC Barcelona coincide with the amounts recorded by FC Barcelona for each of these companies in Form 347″, which refers to transactions with third parties. “Furthermore, there is no evidence that suggests that the “The invoices accounted for and recorded in the books do not coincide with what is declared by FC Barcelona in terms of corporate tax and VAT”.

In the list that the Treasury makes of payments, we observe once again how noire grew its revenue exponentially over time and skyrocketed in the first stage of The door at the head of the entity. If in 2006 Barça only deducted 117,276 euros for payments to Dasnil and 197,648 euros to Nilsadthe amount paid to the latter by Barça in 2015 already amounted to 891,150 euros. In the case of the first company in 2010, the Catalan club already earned 777,607 euros per year.

The tax authorities, however, claim that the figure deducted by Barça for these notions is in reality much higher than what they have been able to certify. “We have come to the conclusion that there could be a coincidence in the years that could not be compared,” they say.

The inspectors also address the delay after that required by the judge. Aguirrewhich covers the years 2015 and 2018, the date on which the relationship between the historic leader of refereeing and Barça ended. The Treasury recalls that it was precisely in those years that he inspected the club to verify the payments to noireverified that they lacked any supporting documents and proceeded to “regularize them, refusing their deductibility because it was a gift.”

Genesis of the Negreira affair

In fact, this tax audit constitutes the genesis of the Negreira Affairthe biggest scandal in the history of Spanish football, in which justice is investigating Barça, a good part of its former leaders and the former number two referee for sports corruption, among other crimes. The instructor and the public prosecutor affirm that FC Barcelona paid noire to try to influence sporting results.

The anti-corruption prosecution has already made itself known in the complaint filed against the former presidents Sandro Rosell et Joseph Maria Bartomeuthat the club tried to irregularly deduct 877,299 euros. The Treasury asked the club for “a copy of the invoices and means of payment used, a description of the nature of the services provided and their relationship with the entity’s activity”. Barça did not credit any services and the Treasury concluded that the invoices were false.

For this reason, the Inspectorate made a regularization proposal of 404,249 euros plus 52,324 euros in interest for the Corporate Tax and another of 473,050 euros plus 84,991 euros for the delay in VAT. In total, approximately 900,000 euros. Warned that the conspiracy went beyond the tax framework, the Treasury transferred the case in May 2022 to the public prosecutor’s office, which continued the scandal a year ago.