Spanish police raided the workplaces of the referees’ committee as a part of an investigation into Barcelona’s alleged corrupt funds to an official.
Barcelona face prices of corruption over funds made to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, a former vice-president of the committee, in return for beneficial refereeing choices.
Uefa can be investigating the matter.
Barcelona deny any wrongdoing and no arrests have been made throughout the search in Madrid.
The Spanish Civil Guard searched the Spanish Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) headquarters on Thursday.
BBC Sport has been instructed that the choose presiding over the case demanded documentation from the CTA. This was not despatched, which prompted the raid.
The preliminary felony investigation was introduced by the Barcelona public prosecutor’s workplace in March, with European soccer’s governing physique Uefa launching its personal investigation shortly after.
It’s alleged that Barcelona paid 8.4m euros (£7.4m) to Negreira and his Dasnil 95 firm.
The funds have been initially investigated as a part of a tax probe into the corporate run by Negreira.
Barcelona made funds to the corporate totalling a reported 1.4m euros (£1.2m) between 2016 and 2018, and paid Negreira about 7m euros (£6.2m) between 2001 and 2018, the yr he left his function with the referees’ committee.
Barcelona acknowledged that they had paid Dasnil 95, which it described as “an exterior technical guide”, to compile video stories on referees “with the intention of complementing the data required by the teaching workers”.
They stated paying for stories was “a routine apply amongst skilled golf equipment”.
In February 18 of the 19 different La Liga golf equipment issued a press release expressing “deep concern”.
In July Uefa provisionally cleared Barcelona to play on this season’s Champions League whereas its investigation is ongoing.