According to Tasnim news agency, Jose Manuel Villarjo, a Spanish businessman and former officer of the Spanish National Police, who was previously accused of collaborating with a network of corrupt politicians, businessmen, police officers and media figures in Spain, in an interview with “Radio Catalonia” as follows When asked, the president of Real Madrid club said: Florentino Peres had bribed referees before Barcelona. However, nothing happened because he is immune from punishment.
Real Madrid announced this afternoon (Tuesday) that Florentino Perez has ordered an urgent legal case against Jose Manuel Villarjo for falsely accusing him of bribing referees on Catalan radio.
It was last week that FC Barcelona was accused of paying bribes worth more than seven million euros ($7.3 million) to companies linked to Jose Maria Enriques Negreira, the former vice president of the refereeing committee of the Spanish Football Federation. Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell, the former presidents of the Barcelona club, have also been accused of similar charges, as well as Negira and his son Javier Enriques Romero.
FC Barcelona has previously been accused of corruption in sports, corruption in business, mismanagement and forgery of commercial documents. The club is accused of secretly paying Jose Maria Enriques Negreira, the former vice president of the Spanish Referees Committee, more than 7 million euros between 2001 and 2018, during the presidency of Josep Maria Bartomeu, to receive referee reports of La Liga matches.