After prominent Spanish-based football publication, La Vanguardia released a statement from FC Barcelona which alleged that LaLiga president Javier Tebas provided false evidence against them in an attempt to incriminate the club and two former presidents as part of the ongoing Negreira case.
Sharing their clarification on the same, LaLiga released a press statement in response to these allegations that read, "LaLiga has been fighting for a fair and clean game for years. As part of that fight LaLiga provided information in a case that investigates the prior president of the Spanish FA, Angel Maria Villar. This case is known as Caso Soule.
"LaLiga provided this information with knowledge of the LaLiga Executive Committee (Commission Delegada). This is information, albeit misrepresented, is now source of the headline in La Vanguardia which led in turn to the FCB statement.While the headline is grossly misleading, in the Vanguardia article itself it states that LaLiga explicitly does not seek to speculate nor accuse anyone with the documentation provided."
We have attached the rectification request for your convenience and also want to refer to this tweet by Javier Tebas for further context.
According to the allegations against Barcelona, they made payments in excess of €7 million to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira's company — DASNIL 95 SL — for written reports and DVD assessments of referees for the club before games. The payments were allegedly made between 2001 and 2018 when Negreira was vice president of Spanish football's refereeing committee.
According to the report, the documents issued by Tebas were part of another case, not linked to either of Barcelona's former presidents and were decades old, something the LaLiga chief called 'false' on social media.
"Barcelona, as president Joan Laporta has said in recent weeks, feel the victim of a media lynching based on events that have never occurred: Barca have never bought referees," a statement read.
"It is not the first time the president of LaLiga has used his media machinery to attack Barcelona but, aside from his usual nonsense, we could never have imagined he would have hoped to incriminate our club with false evidence," Tebas's statement added.
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