Guardia Civil (Unidad Orgánica de Policía Judicial)
Also known as: Guardia Civil
Investigative body in the Negreira matter; reported instrumental companies and front men and put the payment total at €8,389,599.73, while never concluding the payments were not for refereeing advice.
Timeline appearances
- 2001Negreira & refereeingPayments recorded from FC Barcelona to Negreira-linked companies
- 2024-08-06Negreira & refereeingGuardia Civil reports instrumental companies and raises total
Claims
- Reported allegation: The payments FC Barcelona made to companies controlled by José María Enríquez Negreira and his son bought favourable treatment in refereeing decisions.
- Analytical question: There was "corrupción sistémica en el conjunto del arbitraje español" — not all referees, but a group of them — and the payments produced the refereeing effects FC Barcelona desired.
Explicit limitations
- Exact figures 2006–2011.
- The competing totals do not reconcile: Fiscalía €7.3M/€7.5M, revised €7.6M; Guardia Civil €8,389,599.73; El Mundo €6,659,488 since 2001; InfoLibre/Football Leaks €6.2M (2001–2017, IVA incl.).
- A complete, primary-sourced exact year-by-year 17-year table does not exist in retrievable journalism.
- Whether instrumentality proves corruption vs tax evasion.