Barcelona have denied that former president Sandro Rosell illegally bought a liver for ex-France defender Eric Abidal, as quoted by BBC. Rosell is currently under trial for money laundering, but that could be not his only crime!

Amazing reports in Spain claim Rosell, who was arrested for money-laundering in 2017, purchased the organ. Barcelona say they "roundly deny any irregularity in the matter".

The claim has also been denied by Abidal and the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, where the player had the operation.

Abidal, famous French defender, who is now the club's technical secretary, had a transplant in 2012 after a tumour was found in his liver. He said on twitter he got the liver from his brother Gerard.

A spokesperson for the Catalan Justice Department told BBC Sport a case against Rosell for the "alleged illegal purchase of an organ" was closed without charge earlier this year.

Spain's national transplant organisation said an investigation it launched together with the hospital and the Catalan Transplant Organisation showed the donation and transplant "was in accordance with current legislation and common clinical protocols".