Overview

• Investigating Court No. 16 issued the citations after a Kroll forensic audit and a Mossos d'Esquadra report asserted roughly €30 million in harm to the club.
• Josep Maria Bartomeu must appear before the judge on 24 October as an investigado, a procedural status that does not imply guilt.
• Former CEO Óscar Grau has also been cited in the same case, which centers on payments tied to player signings during Bartomeu’s presidency.
• The probe examines possible crimes of disloyal administration, misappropriation and accounting falsification under Spanish law.
• Operations under scrutiny include commissions linked to the signings of Antoine Griezmann and Malcom, with the case initiated after Joan Laporta filed the Kroll report with prosecutors in 2022.