Former Barcelona president Joan Laporta has seen his objection to a deal that the incumbent Josep Maria Bartomeu made with the public prosecutor dismissed. In June, the Catalan club agreed to pay a fine of 5.5 million euros, thereby admitting guilt in the Neymar tax case, while Bartomeu and his predecessor Sandro Rosell were exonerated, but Laporta condemned the arrangement with the authorities and sought to challenge it in court. On Tuesday, however, the Provincial High Court in Barcelona threw out his appeal due to a lack of relevant information. "It was limited to launching opinions about certain people who had been involved in the process and to discrediting them," the motion explained. "[The members who have lodged the complaint] cannot present themselves as victims of the institution that allegedly committed the offences and that was accused in the process."
As such, the pact agreed with the public prosecutor in the summer is confirmed.Neymar case has refused to allow the former Barcelona president Joan Laporta to attend in person to air his particular grievances, it was determined on Friday. Laporta had been strident in his objections to the deal reached between the club and prosecutors in the case which saw no criminal action brought against the current president Josep Maria Bartomeu and his predecessor Sandro Rosell but instead imposed a fine of 5.5 million euros on the club. The prosecution questioned the motives of the motions tabled by Laporta, expressing doubt as to whether they represented a legitimate and impartial attempt to see justice be done in the matter, and rejected his attempts to turn the spotlight of culpability back on his two successors personally.
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