Barcelona Lawsuit continues against club and player

The investment company DIS has refused to negotiate with Barcelona after launching a corruption case against the club, Neymar and others.

The lawsuit accuses Barcelona, Santos, current club president Josep Maria Bartomeu, his predecessor Sandro Rosell, the player himself and his parents of corruption regarding contracts signed between 2011 and 2013.

"As executive director Roberto Moreno has already expressed on several occasions, 'DIS does not negotiate with regards to crimes', especially with crimes as serious as transfer market corruption," a DIS statement said.

The same statement explains that the minimum economic damage the company believes has been caused by the Catalan club is 33.9 million euros, as MARCA revealed a few days ago.

In the past few days some information had appeared which suggested the 24-year-old would have required a pact with DIS to renew his Barcelona contract, but he was able to so on Thursday without their consent.