The head of the Hong Kong office refused to take over two invoices from 'Barçagate'

Xavier Asensi, responsible for the Hong Kong office in 2018, refused to take charge at that time of two invoices from the companies contracted by FC Barcelona of the conglomerate Nicestream in the 'Barçagate' case and left it in writing in an email addressed to Oscar Grau, general manager of the club.

This is explained in the summary of the case to which he has had access EFE, which provides an email from June 20, 2018, sent by Asensi to Grau, who was arrested and later released on provisional release this Monday.

“I would like to use this email to officially request a 'disclaimer' (a liability exception) from the club towards me regarding the two contracts that I had to sign as MD of APAC (responsible for the Asia-Pacific area) as requested by the club, “Asensi explains in the email.

And it continues: “My mistake for not having read the contracts, but every day that passes I am more clear that if I had read them I would not have signed them. The proof is that on Friday, March 2, I already refused to sign a third contract that was asked of me. “

Asensi is aware that “if I ended up making the payment from Hong Kong, there could be serious and serious legal implications for me (and for you Oscar)”.

The head of the Hong Kong office admits that he cannot and will not be “responsible for a payment of almost 230,000 euros to companies in remote areas that I do not know what they do, who they are or what they have been hired for.”

Specifically, a payment was made from the Hong Kong office to Big Data Solutions and Coyote Express, both owned by Carlos Ibáñez, for a price of 180,000 euros and 49,800, respectively.

“Oscar, the more I think and read what these companies do, the clearer I have that this is not clear water.” And he adds: “These two contracts of Coyote and Big Data very calm do not leave me”.

Finally, ask “please if the club (Román Gómez-Ponti or whoever you want) You can provide me with the 'disclaimer' where I exonerate myself and remove all legal responsibility regarding these two contracts “.

In the summary, the Mossos conclude after this email that “Asensi was apparently forced by the club to sign the aforementioned contracts and, in fact, they were not even read beforehand.”

In addition, they consider relevant that “finally and after these emails the cost of these two contracts was attributed to another department.” And they say that “these cost allocations would have been forced to other departments despite not being services commissioned by these same departments.”