He is one of seven people facing the probe.
Joan Laporta is one of seven people who are being investigated Barcelona president Joan Laporta is being investigated for bribery by Spanish prosecutors after being made a ‘suspect’ on Wednesday, according to reports. Laporta is one of seven people who are being investigated over payments of €7.3 million made by Barcelona to former senior referee Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira.
In the latest twist, though, the judge has officially implicated Laporta for the first time and he is now being considered as a suspect in the case, CNN have reported. In February, Barcelona admitted they had paid an external consultant for ‘technical reports related to professional refereeing’ – but argued that this was common practice among football clubs.
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