Judge gives approval to transfer Sandro Rosell to a Catalan prison LaLiga - Barcelona Ex-Barcelona president in preventative detention since May 2017

Judge Carmen Lamela has given her approval to transfer Sandro Rosell to a Catalan prison.

Having already issued the indictment against him and five others as part of a 20 million euro money laundering case involved the Brazilian FA (CBF).

It's alleged that the former Blaugrana president pocketed at least 6.5 million euros of the aforementioned amount.

Legal sources told EFE that the judge of the National Court has agreed to a request made by the Rosell's defence lawyers.

On May 29, Lamela handed down a sentence to Rosell and his wife on the understanding that they were part of a criminal organisation that diverted finances from the CBF.

The former president of the organisation, Ricardo Teixeira, is being investigated in the United States of America as part of the same case.

Charges include the fact 15 million euros were obtained by Teixeira from the broadcast rights of 24 friendly matches played by the Brazilian national team, a further 5 million euros came from a sponsorship contract with Nike.

In 2006 a contract was signed by Teixeira and an Arab company based in the Cayman Islands to organise the aforementioned friendly matches.

Rosell's defence was that the payments made to him and his wife stemmed from the 2011 sale of merchandise owned by him to a Lebanese citizen.