Rosell reportedly benefited from Barcelona shirt sponsorship LaLiga - Barcelona Relates to a deal signed in 2010

A report published on Monday claims that former Barcelona president Sandro Rosell benefited personally from the sale of the club's shirt sponsorship in 2010.

That year, the Blaugrana agreed a deal with Qatar to sponsor the famous jersey.

El Confidencial report that the deal included a series of clauses that forced them to assign teams, coaches and facilities to Aspire, the main client of Rosell's BSM sports agency.

"They benefited indirectly from the sponsorship contract with Barcelona, which was signed with Qatari company QSI," a Guardia Civil report states.

"As well as sponsoring jerseys, friendly matches and exchange rights were collected by QSI, which is linked to the Aspire project.

"BSM benefited from the contract signed with Barcelona, especially in terms of the global impact that the football club represents.

"The aforementioned project represented 70 percent of the income for BSM so, after verifying that the sale [of the firm] was fictitious and always managed by Rosell, it can be assured that when he signed the deal on behalf of the club, it was benefiting BSM and consequently himself."

In that way, El Confidencial's report explains that the main objective of Rosell in the shirt sponsorship was to increase the revenues of his own private businesses.

Among the clauses that were part of the deal there was an obligation for the first team to travel to Qatar after the season ended, for four youth teams to attend the Aspire Sports Academy each season, for there to be training opportunities for Aspire teams based in Catalonia, for a first team winter training camp in Qatar and for an exchange programme.

A star Barcelona ambassador was also contractually obligated to travel annually to Qatar for the final of the Aspire Football Dreams.

It also guaranteed club support for Aspire Qatar in their efforts to obtain the support of Unicef with their project.

On December 13, 2010, at the same time that the sponsorship agreement between Barcelona and QSI was signed, Rosell announced that he had sold his consulting firm four months before in order to avoid incurring a potential conflict of interests.

However, national police officers and the Guardia Civil, who investigated the former president for alleged money laundering in the so-called Operation Rimet, discovered that it was an artificial sale and that between 2007 and 2014 BSM received 30 million euros from Qatar.

Investigators also discovered that Rosell used a representative from his BSM agency to represent Barcelona in the historic sponsorship agreement with QSI.

Rosell and five other business associates are also being prosecuted as part of gaining illegal commissions from the Brazilian FA.