The RFEF take on judge in Negreira case over his claim of "corrupt referees"

Last Thursday, 'Cadena SER' reported that the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) was considering taking legal action against the magistrate in the 'Negreira case,' judge Joaquín Aguirre, after he stated in his order that there was a "group of corrupt referees."

The same information pointed to the unease of the Technical Committee of Referees, who considered this accusation made by Aguirre to be one of the most serious that the refereeing collective has received in recent years.

Five days after this information, Isaac Fouto reported on 'El Partidazo de COPE' that the RFEF has already denounced Aguirre after his order, which said: "It does not mean that each and every one of the referees were corrupt, but a group of them were."

The initiative is said to have come from Medina Cantalejo, president of the Technical Committee of Referees, who is said to have put the case in the hands of the RFEF's legal services. The Royal Spanish Football Federation reportedly denounced Aguirre to the CGPJ. According to Cope, the Federation's legal services are asking him to "name names or retract."

Aguirre turned his investigation of the 'Negreira case' into Barça's payments to former referee José María Enríquez Negreira upside down, stating in an order that there could be "systemic corruption" in the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), according to an order in which he accepts the request by the League for the practice of certain diligences to "advance in the hypothesis relating to the possible influence" of the former referee, "either directly or through his son", could have exerted on his counterparts.