The deal to sign Neymar cost Barcelona €86.2m (£71.4m), including payments to the forward and his family, the club said on Friday after the player's father revoked a confidentiality agreement.
The Brazil international's close-season move from Santos, which the Spanish club initially said was worth €57.1m, is being investigated by a court for possible misappropriation of funds after a complaint from a Barça member.
Sandro Rosell, who was named in the lawsuit but denies wrongdoing, stepped down as president on Thursday. He said he wanted to protect the club's image and alleged he and his family had been threatened.
Barça had been reluctant to reveal all the details of the deal, citing the confidentiality agreement, but after a board meeting on Friday Rosell's successor, Josep Bartomeu, told a news conference that Neymar's father had given them permission to go public.
The Barça director Raul Sanllehi reiterated the transfer on its own had cost €57.1m, comprising €17.1m to Santos and €40m as a "compensation fee" paid to a company owned by Neymar's parents.
He also detailed other payments around the transfer such as a signing bonus of €10m and various other fees paid to the family that took the total cost to €86.2m.
Barça are paying Neymar €8.8m in wages per season for his five-year contract, said Sanllehi. "Neymar's father waived the confidentiality agreement because he considers what has happened [to Rosell] to be unjust," Bartomeu said.
The player had received more lucrative offers from some of Barça's rivals but decided to move to the Catalan capital because he believed in the club's project and wanted to play alongside the Argentina forward Lionel Messi, he added.
Bartomeu said he and the rest of the board, which has remained virtually unchanged after Rosell's exit, intended to see out their mandate until 2016 even if he or the vice-president Javier Faus are implicated in the lawsuit.
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