The president of the FC Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu, has denied to have participated in any of the seven agreements of the signing of the Brazilian Neymar and attributes to his ancestor, Sandro Rosell, the negotiation and back preparation of the documents
The president of the FC Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu, has affirmed to the judge Pablo Ruz that he did not take part in any of the agreements for fichar to Neymar, since of this task commissioned his ancestor, Sandro Rosell, and has denied the fiscal crime because it would be atribuible to another year.
Bartomeu has declared in front of the judge Ruz imputed of a possible fiscal crime corresponding to the year 2014, when the club left to pay 2,8 millions to Inland revenue by the signing of the Brazilian, that cost to the Barça a total of 94,8 millions in place of the 57,1 that the club said to have paid by him. As they informed present sources in the appearance, Bartomeu would have explained to the judge that did not take part neither in the negotiation neither in the configuration of any of the seven agreements of Neymar.
When it arrived to the presidency of the club, said, signed them by that it gave them by good and gave instructions to the fiscalistas to work with risk zero and pay what could be due to Inland revenue, after which the club credited 13,5 millions for regularizar his situation, a quantity that, puntualizó, covers with grow the possible debts of the entity culé.
The statement has lasted three hours
The president of the FC Barcelona has arrived to the National High Court to declare as imputed by a fiscal crime in the signing of Neymar, of the that the Barcelona club also has to answer like legal person. Bartomeu has arrived in car to the headquarters of the Audience, where expected him a big number of journalists, few minutes after the eleven of the morning, and has gone out around the two of the afternoon. The judge Ruz has agreed these appointments after receiving a report of Inland revenue that calculates a fraud of 2,8 million euros by part of the president and of the club in 2014, what supposes the imputación of a third fiscal crime in the Barcelona entity.
Bartomeu is the second president imputed in the case. Before it went it Rosell, imputed by two fiscal crimes between 2011 and 2013. Rosell abandoned his charge in January of 2014. In the case of Bartomeu, according to Ruz, concurren "sufficient indications for the investigation on the possible commission of a new crime against the public inland revenue regarding the corresponding income tax to the exercise of 2014".