Andreu Camps, on the Negreiro case: “The person with government responsibility knew about it and didn’t report it”

Secretary General in Spanish Federation, Andreu Camps, expressed this Thursday the body’s “absolute and complete confidence” in the arbitration group despite information related to the case of Negreira, and warned that they were able to “verify whether a person with government responsibility” was aware of the facts and “he did not denounce it», and that the estate member did not want to cooperate in the sent questionnaire.

“I want to express the absolute and complete confidence of this association and its president in the entire arbitration group and that no action that can be proven, even if it is the goal of criminal law, can discredit them and cast doubt on their complete integrity. If anything is proven, we categorically deny that it should have negative consequences for our honest and professional members of the arbitration panel,” Camps said in a statement to the media along with Luis Medina Cantalejopresident of HTA.

The director of the alliance made a chronology of events, limiting himself to giving “objective explanations that cannot harm the investigation that is developing and must continue to develop”, and that for the organization “it is important to reach the end”. of this investigation,” making it clear that their legal services indicated that it would be “counterproductive” at this time to file an appeal, as the college has already done individually Xavier Estrada Fernandez.

Camps confirmed that the Spanish tax agency contacted the federation in 2021 and that the investigation carried out by the prosecutor’s office “does not last for days or weeks” and that during the investigation they carried out from the federation they managed to “verify that “some person with first-hand knowledge” of the facts she did not denounce “when he had government responsibility,” though he did not name any names. In addition, he reported that “all but one of the judges and reporters contributed to the internal investigation.”

Medina Cantalejo: It’s a shame, we’ll fight for everyone to stay in their place

President of the association Technical committee of judges (CTA), Luis Medina Cantalejo, He assured that “there is no evidence, no evidence that can say that the arbitrator is dishonest” and explained that he had forwarded to the integrity department the data collected in the internal investigation related to The case of Negreiro.

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Who has the most interest to clear it up and if there are culprits to be punished the most severely, we are the arbiters, if there was anything that could be attributed to the people who belonged to this house at the time and took advantage of their position in which they profited and had activities outside of the Spanish arbitration procedure,” he said.

Medina Cantalejo insisted that “the damage has been done” and that referees must continue to work, continue to train, officiate matches and “make available to institutionsboth from the integrity department of the Federation, as well as from the Prosecutor’s Office or any entity that requests it.

“I am not corrupt, and neither are you. What happened is a shame and it must be cleared up. We will fight to the end so that everyone stays in their place», added Medina Cantalejo, who he explained that only one arbitrator, whose identity he did not reveal, did not send the information requested as part of the investigation internally implements HAT and alliance.

The arbitrator refused to cooperate

The storm around Barça has grown stronger since the Negreiro case was revealed. The caucus chaired by Joan Laporta prefers to wait for Justice to speak before speaking. Those who did not last are the judges, who they wanted to show their faces at a big press conference.

Judges of all categories were present — 240 members of the arbitration group. except one Xavier Estrada Fernandezthe current referee of the first league and more precisely VAR, who wanted to go to war himself after filing a report directly against Enríquez Negreira and his son. The appeal, which, it seems, did not go down well with the judges because it was separated after the appointment for this day.

Camps called the umpire who did not send the information required by the league’s integrity department not a traitor, but the one who leaked the questions sent to the umpires to the press.