Barcelona's Laporta denies paying refs 'to obtain advantage'
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Barcelona have never "done anything" to "obtain some type of sporting advantage," the football club's president Joan Laporta says amid investigations into payments made to a former refereeing chief. Last month Spanish prosecutors charged the Catalan club with corruption after payments of more than 7.3 million euros ($7.8 million) to a company owned by a former refereeing chief were uncovered earlier this year.
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