Prosecutors in Spain confirmed Friday they have filed corruption charges againstBarcelonaand the clubs former presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu for payments made to the former vice president of the refereeing committee.

Ex-club executives Oscar Grau and Albert Soler are also listed among the defendants, along with former referee Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira,whose company received almost 7 million ($7.5 million) from Barca from 2001 to 2018.

They stand accused of corruption in sport, corruption in business, false administration and the falsification of commercial documents.

A statement from prosecutors read: Through presidents Rosell and Bartomeu, Barcelona reached and maintained a strictly confidential verbal agreement with the defendant Negreira, so that, in his capacity as vice president of the refereeing committee and in exchange for money, he would carry out actions aimed at favouring Barcelona in the decision making of the referees in the matches played by the club, and thus in the results of the competitions.

Rosell, Barca president from 2010 to 2014, was replaced by Bartomeu. After six years at the helm of the Catalan club, Bartomeu resigned in 2020, with Joan Laporta eventually elected as his replacement in 2021.

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