Real Madrid Football Club announces that, in connection with the so-called Negrera case, it has submitted a written statement to UEFA addressed to its disciplinary bodies.
In this statement, the club informs UEFA of the existence of significant evidence that conclusively reinforces the indicators already known from the beginning regarding the existence of lengthy and opaque payments lacking any verifiable justification, made by FC Barcelona to José María Enríquez Negreira, former Vice President of the Technical Committee of Referees of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, through various institutional structures.
Real Madrid confirms that these facts constitute, from the point of view of sports disciplinary law, a very serious systemic risk to the integrity of competitions, because they reveal the existence of a structure of undue influence on the arbitration panel, which contradicts the basic principles of competitive equality, impartiality, impartiality and unpredictability of sporting results.
In this context, Real Madrid urged the immediate resumption of the disciplinary procedures initiated by UEFA, considering it unacceptable for this situation to continue over time, because its continuation seriously harms the credibility of football, its institutions and its leaders. Therefore, the club demands a firm, exemplary and immediate response in the sporting field, regardless of the ongoing judicial proceedings.
For this reason, our club requests UEFA, in the exercise of its independent competences, to adopt appropriate disciplinary and restorative measures to ensure the integrity, transparency and proper functioning of competitions. This must not, under any circumstances, replace the role of State judicial bodies or preclude a criminal characterization of the facts. In this regard, Real Madrid, as special prosecutor in the ongoing criminal proceedings, will continue to take the necessary legal measures at each procedural stage, as it has done from the beginning.
Real Madrid reaffirms its commitment to defending the fundamental values of sport and will continue to strengthen all necessary measures to ensure that such incidents do not go unpunished.
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