Barcelona Director who launched corruption complaint criticises star

Roberto Moreno, executive director of DIS, the company that launched a corruption complaint against Barcelona star Neymar, says the Brazilian cannot be seen as a role model.

Moreno, who is in Madrid to begin the high court process against the Blaugrana forward, has heavily criticised the player, admitting that DIS feel 'betrayed' having worked with him from a young age when he played for Santos in his home country.

"Neymar cannot be an example for our children, he is not an icon when he is being investigated for fraud, tax evasion and corruption," Moreno began.

"We feel betrayed, cheated and swindled.

"We took care of him, we invested a lot of money in him despite the risk, there comes a time when we feel cheated."

Moreno says they [DIS] began to expect something was wrong four years ago, when money was paid for Neymar's transfer to the Camp Nou without them knowing, despite holding 40% of his rights.

"We found out in 2012," he continued.

"I was in Hamburg negotiating for Thiago Neves and it emerged in the annual balance that Barcelona had paid 50.8 million euros - the press announced that this corresponded to the signing of Neymar.

"I was surprised because my company had 40% of the rights and did not know anything."