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Enríquez Negreira made €4.7 million over 15 years from Barcelona link-up
Payments made by Barcelona accounted for 95% of DASNIL’s revenue between 2016 and 2018, according to El Confidencial.
More revelations have come to light on the Barçagate scandal that was uncovered on Wednesday by SER Catalonia and AS, who revealed that between 2016 and 2018, the Catalan giants had made payments totalling €1.4 million to DASNIL 95 SL, a company owned by José María Enríquez Negreira, then vice-president of the Technical Committee of Referees. As has now been published by Spanish newspaper El Confidencial, Barça’s payments accounted for 95% of the company’s total turnover between 2016 and 2018, suggesting that the company only existed in order to receive money from the club.
Payments made “to obtain some kind of sporting advantage”
Between 2003 and 2018, the years in which, according to former Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu himself, the club worked with DASNIL 95, the company turned over a total of €4.7 million. Between 2003 and 2009, they received €198,000 per year, which increased to €300,000 from 2010 onwards, when Sandro Rosell became president. In 2016, the figure rose once more to more €567,136. According to El Confidencial, “the prosecution authorities suspect that the payments from Barcelona to the vice president of the Spanish Football Federation’s Technical Committee of Referees were made with the objective of conditioning the decisions of the referees to try to obtain some kind of sporting advantage”.
DASNIL 95: the marketing company that doesn’t market
Although DASNIL 95 SL is officially registered as an advertising company, there is no record of it ever been active in that sector, it never had more than two employees and its headquarters were in a house located on the ground floor Calle Oblit in the Guinardó neighbourhood of Barcelona, which is not an office. El Confidencial say that José María Enríquez Negreira’s son, Javier Enríquez Romero, served as a “smokescreen” during the years that his father was vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees. When Barça cancelled their payments in 2018, DASNIL’s turnover sharply fell. In 2019, it made only €7,384 and did not do any business at all in 2020.