Former Barcelona chief Josep Maria Bartomeu has confirmed to ESPN that ex-Spanish refereeing committee (CTA) vice president Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira tried to extort money from the Catalan club in 2018 after it stopped making payments to his company.
Enriquez Negreira is being investigated by the Spanish prosecutor's office for receiving at least €1.6 million from Barca between 2016 and 2018 for consultancy work.
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Barca stopped making payments to Enriquez Negreira's part-owned company DASNIL 95 SL after June 2018 once Negreira was no longer vice president of the CTA.