Three others, including chief executive, also arrested
elections for new president to be held at weekendBarcelona’s former president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, his advisor Jaume Masferrer, the club’s chief executive, Óscar Grau, and the head of legal services, Román Gómez Ponti, have been arrested and
Catalan police have entered the Camp Nou to seize documentation as part of an investigation into an alleged misuse of funds and corruption.
The arrests are part of a case put together by the investigating judge relating to Barcelona’s hiring of a social monitoring company, I3 Ventures. Via a series of companies, I3 Ventures had been accused of setting up websites and
Social Media accounts that wrote stories defending the president and damaging the reputations of opposition figures and even some players and former players.