Uefa to investigate Barca over payments

Uefa has appointed ethics and disciplinary inspectors to look into payments made by Barcelona to a former vice-president of Spain’s referees’ committee. A court heard Barcelona have been indicted for “corruption”, “breach of trust” and “false business records”. Prosecutors allege Barca paid 8.4m euros (£7.4m) to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira and his company in return for favourable refereeing decisions. Barcelona deny any wrongdoing. Uefa said: “Ethics and disciplinary inspectors have been appointed to conduct an investigation regarding a potential violation of Uefa’s legal framework by FC Barcelona in connection with the so-called ‘Caso Negreira'”.