Francisco J. Márquez was heard this morning in another trial in the so-called “e-mail case” in which the director of public relations of FC Porto is one of the defendants in the trial, along with Diogo Faria and Julio Magalhães. .
Francisco J. Márquez, who is responsible for the distribution of emails for the program on the Porto channel, started by protecting the public interest regarding messages belonging to Benfica. “It is evident to anyone that there was a public interest. In fact, it was so obvious that even the New York Times became interested, as well as the New Yorker magazine, ”he said, ensuring that he continues to think that he did not make the wrong decision by disclosing the information.
Asked why the emails weren’t delivered to the authorities in the first place, Porto’s PR director said: “I was of the opinion that nothing was happening with Benfica. I thought about it and decided not to. I thought that if I gave up, then absolutely nothing would happen and that it was especially serious there. The only thing that needed to be done was to make it public so everyone knew what was going on. It was logical for the football fans to know what was going on.”
“Five years have passed since those revelations, and during this period of time a lot of different things have happened. We’ve had players admit in court that Benfica tried to buy them, Benfica employees in high positions and seats in board meetings entered Citius and consulted the same process, but the prosecutor’s office is after me and I would Diogo “, he stressed.
