April 03, (THEWILL) – Barcelona are calling for the resignation of La Liga president, Javier Tebas, after accusations were made on Monday, over his handling of the “Negreira case”, as reported in the Spanish media.
Reports monitored by THEWILL, claim that Tebas sent a document, handwritten by an ex-Barcelona chief, Josep Contreras, to the Public Prosecutor’s office, but the veracity of the document is disputed. In reaction to the story, Barcelona have been charged over allegedly improper payments made to the former vice-president of Spanish football’s refereeing committee by the Spanish state prosecutor’s office.
“Given the seriousness of the information that appeared today Monday in La Vanguardia, in which the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, is linked as the executor in presenting false evidence to the Prosecutor’s Office to incriminate our Club, FC Barcelona wishes to express its deep anger, indignation and weariness,” Barcelona stated on their official website.
“For this reason, we urgently request the president of LaLiga to appear publicly to offer explanations, beyond the tweet sent at dawn by Mr Tebas, fleeing from the studio and with a threatening patina.”
Barcelona have denied any wrongdoing and claim to be the victim of a media lynching. “Barça has never bought referees,” the statement reads. “It is not the first time that the president of LaLiga has used all his media machinery to blow up FC Barcelona but, apart from his usual nonsense, we could never have imagined that he would have tried to incriminate our Club with false evidence.”
The story published by La Vanguardia accuses Tebas of sending false evidence to the Public Prosecutor’s office regarding former Barcelona presidents Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell.
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