The Court of Instruction number 1 of Barcelona, headed by Joaquín Aguirre, has issued an order in which it ensures that Barcelona's payments to the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees, worth more than eight million euros between 2001 and 2018, caused, presumably, "systemic corruption" in the refereeing establishment. Furthermore, the magistrate points out that Real Madrid and "any other First Division team that has coincided with FC Barcelona during the years under investigation" can be considered harmed by the alleged plot.

With these arguments, the judge dismisses the appeals of the culé team and former president Josep María Bartomeu against the admission of Real Madrid as a private accusation in the procedure.

Regarding the damage caused to the rest of the teams, "it is presumed by pure logic that FC Barcelona would not pay vice president Negreira around seven million euros since 2001 if it did not benefit them," explains the judge. "In such a panorama of possible systemic corruption within the CTA", Joaquín Aguirre concludes that Real Madrid and any other team that has competed at some point with Barcelona must be "admitted as being offended by the crime, so that the potentially harmed person can appear in the case and participate in the investigation".

Finally, the magistrate rejects that Negreira played a "simply representative" function, as publicly maintained by the current president of the CTA, Luis Medina Cantalejo, and emphasizes that the investigated person himself admitted to the Tax Agency that he met in Madrid every 15 days to "review the reports made by the referees after each game and rate them."