Former President Josep Maria Bartomeu was taken into custody

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BARCELONA – The Barçagate plot discovered about a year ago, this Monday, as part of the court’s investigation, caused the arrest of the former president of Barcelona Josep Maria Bartomeu and of the still general manager of the club Òscar Grau, the person in charge of the legal services Román Gómez Ponti and the person who was the personal adviser to the president, Jaume Masferrer.

Two teams from the Mossos de Esquadra in the field of economic crimes, the Catalan police, showed up first at the club’s office in the morning to conduct various searches in different offices, close the building and allow access for all. including those employees who had not yet arrived and those in attendance from leaving the facilities, isolating several executives whose computers were intervened while various materials were seized.

Parallel to the intervention in the Barcelona offices, another team of the Catalan police moved to Bartomeu’s home, where he was arrested after the former president contacted his lawyer as soon as he was referred to the police station to report him. to take. possibly Tuesday.

Alejandra Gil, head of District Court 13 of the Barcelona District Court, decided in mid-February to continue the investigation under summary secrecy, warning that witness evidence should be received after ‘evidence of corruption’ was already on the bills in September noted. They were distributed below 200 thousand euros so as not to pass any checks. In fact, the judge already warned that she did not find the club’s expected cooperation, a fact that would have caused the appearance on Monday.

Bartomeu’s board audit ruled out any debt in the board, resolving only the suspension of employment (and subsequent resignation) of compliance officer Noelia Romero, some time after six executives (Emili Roussaud, Enrique Tombas, Silvio Elías Josep Pont, Maria Teixidor and Jordi Calsamiglia) presented their resignations in what was the beginning of the scandal.

Bartomeu was increasingly spotted through a motion of censure launched against him, and decided to resign as president along with his board of directors, defending his work at the head of the club and convinced that he had “always” acted under the strictest legalities in the case … which ultimately led to his arrest in a new script.

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