Benfica President and Former Administrators Accused of €6M Scheme: Newest Updates and Scandal Particulars

Benfica’s present president and former administrators concerned in an alleged scheme that price SAD almost €6 M

Rui Costa, the present president of Benfica, Luís Filipe Vieira, the previous president, Domingos Soares de Oliveira, for a number of years co-head of SAD, and Paulo Gonçalves, who was the membership’s authorized advisor , have been charged with crimes of acquiring an improper benefit. and certified tax fraud.

In accordance with information from Observador, the Central Division of Investigation and Prison Motion (DCIAP) and the Judicial Police (PJ) are accusing the 4 of a plan designed between 2014 and 2020, which diverted round six million euros from the membership’s coffers, via fraudulent mediation contracts for the acquisition and sale of gamers.

As a part of this course of, Rui Costa was lately interviewed, one thing Benfica confirmed in an announcement.

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In accordance with the Observador, the scheme was carried out by withdrawing cash from Benfica SAD’s financial institution accounts to mediate the signing of gamers who, in apply, by no means existed. The false invoices obtained via businessmen, in flip, would trigger tax fraud, because the SAD incarnate gave them as bills, lowering tax assortment when it comes to IRC.

Domingos Soares de Oliveira and Paulo Gonçalves, former co-head of SAD and Benfica’s authorized adviser, respectively

POINTS OF THE MPS

DANIEL DOS ANJOS

The primary scheme entails Daniel dos Anjos, a striker who ended up enjoying only one recreation for Benfica’s major staff, enjoying largely within the B staff. The prosecution claims , regardless of Luz’s ‘zero price’ striker arriving after the tip. underneath contract with Flamengo, SAD paid eagles to the corporate Olisports – owned by Adolfo Oliveira, the son of a former Benfica scouting colleague – 1.25 million euros in mediation prices, however the firm obtained solely , in apply, , , 450 thousand euros for a service he didn’t present.

Daniel dos Anjos concerned in the one recreation he performed for the principle staff, towards Paredes, for the Portuguese Cup

MARCELLO HERMES

One other of the signings that DCIAP and PJ had been concentrating on was Marcelo Hermes, a left again who signed with Benfica within the 2017 winter market, for two.9 million euros. This quantity was by no means included within the reviews and accounts submitted by SAD and the CMVM was additionally not knowledgeable, elevating the MP’s suspicions. Hermes ended his contract with Grêmio in a month, making it unusual, subsequently, the necessity to make investments virtually € 3 M, and his market worth was evaluated at solely 500 thousand euros. Once more, it’s a firm owned by Adolfo Oliveira – Drible Gestão e Assessoria Desportiva – that’s suspected of getting obtained cash for mediation that he didn’t do. Hermes performed just one recreation for Benfica’s major staff.

Marcelo Hermes

LUIS FELIPE

The deal that introduced Luís Felipe from Palmeiras to Benfica in the summertime of 2014 noticed the Reds pay three million euros greater than anticipated. The participant was transferred from Palmeiras to Vitória da Baía for 570 thousand euros, on June 27, 2014, with Benfica, 4 days later, paying 1.8 million euros for half of the license.

DCIAP believes that the participant has been overvalued, to encourage one other money circulate from the SAD coffers for causes which are nonetheless unknown. Luís Felipe by no means wore a Benfica shirt in official matches and, in 2017/18, he retired and signed for Vitória de Setúbal, after being within the information for trigger a penalty, within the final minute of the match between the sadinos and Benfica, towards Toto Salvio. That purpose allowed the Eagles to win 2-1 and proceed with a 4 level lead on the prime of the competitors.

Additionally at this time, Jornal de Notícias brings to mild some extra points associated to this course of and clarifies that the actions of Willyan Barbosa, Bruno Varela and João Amaral, are at all times between Benfica and Vitória de Setúbal, additionally being studied by DCIAP and PJ.

The Observer additionally factors out that the DCIAP and the PJ need to conclude the investigation and the person prices towards Rui Costa earlier than the judicial holidays, in addition to in relation to the previous administrators of the sadino membership. The following stage can be with Luís Filipe Vieira and Domingos Soares Oliveira, on June 12, based on the Observer.