Barcelona are facing charges of corruption regarding payments the club made to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, a former vice-president of Spain's referees' committee.
Last month it was discovered that the Catalans paid Negreira and a company he owns a reported total of 8.4m euros (£7.4m) between 2001 and 2018. On Friday a court in Barcelona was told that the LaLiga club, former officials and Negreira had been indicted for "corruption", "breach of trust" and "false business records".
The lawsuits have been bought against the club as well as former presidents Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell. The public prosecutor's office said: "FC Barcelona obtained and maintained a strictly confidential verbal agreement with Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira so that, in his capacity as vice-president of the technical arbitral committee (CTA) and in exchange for money, the latter carries out actions tending to benefit FC Barcelona in decisions by the referees."
