UEFA inspectors demanded that Barcelona be banned from European cups for one year due to the Negreira incident.

MOSCOW, June 1 – RIA Novosti. Two UEFA investigators tasked with investigating the Negreira case have concluded that Spain’s Barcelona should be suspended for one season from European trophies. informs A B C.

According to the source, investigators Jean Samuel Leuba and Miriam Koller Trunz spoke out for Barça’s dismissal. The final decision on this issue should then be made by UEFA.

This season “Barcelona” became the champion of Spain and was licensed to participate in the Champions League in the new season, but now UEFA can veto the participation of the “blue garnet” in the tournament. Clarity on the matter should come before June 12, when the final composition of the main participants of the European Cup for the new season will be announced.

In February, media reported that between 2016 and 2018, Barcelona paid Negreira about 1.4 million euros for referee reports. The Spanish prosecutor’s office accused Barcelona of being a legal entity, the defendants will also be former presidents of Catalan club Josep Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell. In March, a court accepted a prosecutor’s complaint filed against Barcelona alleging that the club paid Negreira more than €7 million between 2001 and 2018.

Negreira claimed that he was only advising Barcelona on the referees’ decisions, while the Catalan club wanted to make sure that no decisions were made against him by the referees. In April, the Spanish prosecutor’s office allowed Real Madrid to join the case as special prosecutor.