The Prosecutor's Office investigates whether a former vice president of the Arbitration Committee received payments from Barça for advising him

The club says that it commissioned a consultant "technical reports related to professional arbitration"

   BARCELONA, 15 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Prosecutor's Office is investigating whether a former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) received payments from FC Barcelona for advising the club while in office, sources from the Prosecutor's Office have explained to Europa Press.

Specifically, it is investigating the company belonging to the former director of the referees for an alleged crime of corruption between individuals, according to 'Ser Catalunya'.

The aforementioned sources have added that the investigation was opened last year and was extended in October 2022.

After learning about the investigation, the club said in a statement that "in the past it hired the services of an external technical consultant, who supplied, in video format, technical reports referring to lower-category players in Spain for the technical secretariat" of the club. club.

He added that the relationship with this external provider "was extended with technical reports related to professional arbitration in order to complement the information required by the coaching staff of the first team and the subsidiary", something that he underlines as usual in professional football clubs.

Barça added that these outsourced services currently fall to a worker attached to the soccer area and regretted that "this information appears precisely at the best sporting moment of this season."

In addition, FC Barcelona has warned that "it will take legal action against anyone who spoils the club's image with possible insinuations contrary to the entity's reputation that may arise as a result of this information".