The Public Prosecutor's Office of Catalonia has uncovered evidence of a crime and has requested the regional Prosecutor's Office to investigate Ferran Soriano and Joan Oliver for criminal liability as a result of an order to spy on Barcelona's employees, managers and directors between 2005 and 2008.

According to Catalunya Radio, Barcelona requested that all fcbarcelona.cat email addresses be monitored during Joan Laporta's time in the president's chair.

The radio station also posted some Public Prosecutor's Office of Catalonia documents on its Twitter account. These show that the prosecutor in charge of the case observed possible criminal liability against the then vice president Ferran Soriano as the alleged person with co-responsibility for contracting the service. The prosecutor also pointed to possible criminal liability in the case of the managing director at the time, Joan Oliver, for the investigation of four club vice presidents.

The prosecutor's brief explains that Ferran Soriano and Joan Oliver would have been those responsible for ordering installation of the 'Encase Enterprise' computer programme which monitored both incoming and outgoing emails. Barcelona spent two million euros spying on its employees.