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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Spanish police on Monday raided Barcelona football club and arrested the club\u2019s CEO, Oscar Grau and Roman G\u00f3mez Ponti, the Barca\u2019s head of legal, according to Cadena SER radio.<\/p>\n

Barcelona\u2019s former president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, and his right-hand man, Jaume Masferrer, were also arrested.<\/p>\n

They were arrested on suspicion of \u201cunfair administration, corruption between individuals and money laundering\u201d after paying money in instalments to avoid internal financial controls.<\/p>\n

This is coming amid the continued investigation into \u2018BarcaGate\u2019, in which Barcelona\u2019s officials were accused of launching a smear campaign against the current (Lionel Messi, Gerard Pique) and former players (Pep Guardiola and others) who were critical of the Catalan club and Bartomeu.<\/p>\n

Recall that Bartomeu and his board of directors resigned last year in controversy.<\/p>\n

Local authorities from Mossos d\u2019Esquadra entered Barcelona\u2019s stadium as the Blaugrana\u2019s finance, legal and compliance departments are investigated.<\/p>\n

The \u2018BarcaGate; scandal, which has been investigated for almost 12 months, has long been denied by Bartomeu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Spanish police on Monday raided Barcelona football club and arrested the club\u2019s CEO, Oscar Grau and Roman G\u00f3mez Ponti, the Barca\u2019s head of legal, according to Cadena SER radio. Barcelona\u2019s former president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, and his right-hand man, Jaume Masferrer, were also arrested. 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