Spanish police search football referee headquarters in graft probe

Spanish police search football referee headquarters in graft probe

BARCELONA: Police in Spain on Thursday searched the headquarters of the country 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.
Prosecutors suspect the club paid millions of euros to the company of Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, the former vice-president of Spanish football refereeing committee, between 2001 and 2018, to try to influence referee decisions.