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The Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office is investigating FC Barcelona over allegations it made $1.5 million in payments over three years to a company owned by a then-leading official with Spain’s referee committee, CTA.

Spanish radio station Cadena SER reported Wednesday that the club made a series of payments to a company owned by José María Enríquez Negreira between 2016 and 2018. At the time, Enríquez Negreira was serving as the CTA’s vice president. The CTA is the governing body responsible for deciding which referees and assistants officiate weekly matches in Spain.

The football club says in the past it hired an “external consultant” to supply staffers with video reports on youth players from around Spain in addition to “technical reports” on “professional refereeing,” which it said was “common practice” in football. FC Barcelona says such outsourced services are now performed by someone who works for the football department and it threatened legal action against anyone trying to “tarnish the club’s image with possible insinuations.

 

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