Spanish police search football referee headquarters in graft probe
3 years agoA person accesses the Spanish football federation headquarters where a judge on September 28, 2023 has ordered a police search at the headquarters of the Spanish refereeing committee, in Las Rozas de Madrid. - A Spanish judge today ordered a search of the headquarters of the country's football refereeing committee as part of a probe into payments made by FC Barcelona to a firm owned by a high-ranking official of the body. Spanish prosecutors suspect the club paid millions of euros to the company of Jose Mara Enriquez Negreira, the former vice-president of Spanish football's refereeing committee, between 2001 and 2018, to try to influence referee decisions. (Photo by JAVIER SORIANO / AFP)
Police in Spain on Thursday searched the headquarters of the country's football referee committee as part of a probe into payments made by Liga giants Barcelona to a firm owned by a former official of the body.
