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Former Vice Chairman of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) Jose Maria Enriquez NegreraToday, Tuesday, at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Catalonia, he was scheduled to be examined by a forensic expert, to testify whether he was suffering from symptoms of dementia, as his defense claimed before the judge. Upon his arrival, accompanied by his lawyer and his wife, whose arm he held, I tripped and fell to the ground, This was shown in a video clip published by Sarah Simonet, from the EFE agency. Those present helped lift it, and it does not appear to have suffered any serious damage.
According to legal sources reported to the EFE website, the medical examination, which is taking place this morning, was ordered by the President of the Investigative Court No. 1 in Barcelona, Joaquín Aguirre, who It investigates the fate of approximately 7 million euros paid by FC Barcelona to Enriquez Negrera and his son between 2001 and 2018.
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The goal of testing is verification If the person under investigation, who is 78 years old, suffers from a cognitive impairment that renders him unable to face criminal proceedings, The argument made by his defense before the Public Prosecutor’s Office when the Public Ministry was still investigating the case, which led to a complaint being filed in court against Negrira and against former Barcelona presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu.
Negrira’s defense used a report from the Alzheimer’s Center in Barcelona – one of the reference centers in the treatment of this degenerative disease – which testifies that the former referee suffers from “mild dementia”, with changes in memory or language, but remains partially oriented “in time, place and person.”
Once the prosecutor’s complaint was already in the hands of the court, Daniel Pérez-Esque, Negrera’s lawyer, submitted another document before the investigating judge in which he statedHe repeated the inefficiency of the previous ruling, In reference to the Alzheimer’s Center report.
With the examination conducted by the Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Catalonia (IMLCFC), The examining magistrate intends not only to confirm the insanity from which Niguerera claims to suffer, but also to determine whether he will be in a position to question him as an investigator. In the future, respond to a possible prosecution.
In fact, the judge has not yet summoned Negrira and the former Barcelona managers who were found guilty by the prosecutor’s office over payments to the former referee and his son, which the club justified by saying they were consistent with arbitration reports.
In parallel, The Civil Guard analyzes the documents that interfered with the inspection ordered by the judge of the offices of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) located at the offices of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) in Las Rozas (Madrid), as well as the information provided by FC Barcelona on this case, at the request of the court.
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At the end of last month, the coach issued an order in which he agreed to charge the defendants in the “Negrira case” with the crime of bribery, which is added to the crimes of corruption between individuals in the sports field, treacherous administration, and falsehood. In a commercial and money laundering document that was so far attributed to them.
he The judge suspects that the payments to the former referee and his son may have been due to “a new form of potentially illicit remuneration for football referees”. In the context of “possible systemic corruption within the CTA” at the time when Negrera was vice president of this organization.
News prepared with information from EFE
