MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish court said that soccer giants Barcelona may have benefited for almost two decades from "possible systemic corruption" within the country's refereeing committee, court documents seen by Reuters showed on Tuesday.
Investigating judge Joaquin Aguirre Lopez said he believed that any other LaLiga team that competed against Barcelona between 2001 and 2018 - when the club made alleged payments to a company owned by a senior refereeing official - may have been harmed by the alleged scheme and could take legal action.
