Former Barcelona President, Bartomeu Released After A Night In Cell

Former Barcelona president, Josep Maria Bartomeu and his former advisor Jaume Masferrer were released on Tuesday after appearing before a judge investigating last year's Barcagate' scandal, a Spanish court said.

The two men, who were arrested on Monday, "exercised their right not to speak, and the judge granted them conditional release while the investigation continues", the Barcelona court said in a statement.

Bartomeu, who resigned as president in October, was among the four arrested  -- including current chief executive Oscar Grau, head of legal services Roma Gomez Ponti and Bartomeu's advisor Jaume Masferrer -- six days ahead of the club's new presidential elections on Sunday.

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Grau and Gomez Ponti were released late on Monday but Bartomeu and Masferrer spent the night at a cell at a Barcelona police station before appearing before a judge on Tuesday, Spanish media reported.

Catalan police, the Mossos d'Esquadra, said in a statement the arrests were made as part of "an investigation into alleged crimes related to property and the socio-economic order" that has "been going on for almost a year".