He Barcelona has stopped competing, but the activity in the offices does not cease, nor do the proceedings it has open in the courts, which are several. In the last few hours, the investigation requested by Joan Laporta when he became president in March 2021, to investigate the management of the previous board, and several former officials of Josep Maria Bartomeu have been charged.
The judge of Barcelona José Antonio Cruz de Pablo has resumed, according to reports The newspaper, the investigation opened following the forensic forensic (audit related to obtaining information records of different activities) commissioned by the board of directors of Joan Laporta when he took over the presidency in his previous term. As a result of his proceedings, the magistrate has summoned the former executives of the Barça club, among others, to testify as being investigated. Òscar Grau and Román Gómez Ponti, that they exercised at the time of Josep Maria Bartomeu. The player agent must also appear Josep Maria Minguella Pimentel.
Malcom signing
One of the focuses of the investigation focuses on the 10 million euros paid by the Barça to society Business Soccer Spain (BFE) for “intermediation operations” between 2018 and 2020 that would allegedly correspond to “possible unjustified services, non-existent or much higher than the market price”, according to the researchers, who are part of the body of the Mossos d’Esquadra.
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The commissions for the signing of Malcom of the Girondins It is one of the operations that is under suspicion and that appears in the prosecution’s complaint, which maintains that the events analyzed implied damage to the Barça of around four million euros, although the report forensic forensic commissioned by the board of Joan Laporta raised this amount to 30 million euros.
Payment from Barça to the Treasury
The Mossos They found an “obvious modification” of the employment contract between the Barça and Malcom after his signing with different payments to, among other reasons, not add so much money to Tax authorities as would have been appropriate. The board of Laporta had to make a complementary tax return in which the “deferred” payments would have been made with the withholding “hypothetically altered”, entering into the Tax Agency 2.9 million euros.