Barcelona innocent of tax fraud, insists club president


MADRID (Reuters) - Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu has reiterated the club's innocence of tax fraud in the signing of Neymar and insisted the operation to bring the Brazil forward to the Catalan capital was "completely legal".

In the latest twist to a saga that prompted Bartomeu's predecessor, Sandro Rosell, to step down last month, a Madrid court on Thursday charged the Spanish champions with defrauding the tax authority.

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