The rest of the defendants (José António dos Santos, Bruno Macedo and Tiago Vieira) were also bail, even though they are all free.
José António dos Santos, known as the “King of Chicks”, will have to pay a bond of two million euros within 20 days and will not be able to contact any Novo Banco employee or administrator and will have to surrender his passport. Leave the country.
Thiago Vieira, the son of Luis Filipe Vieira, will have to post a bond of 600 thousand euros, for 20 days he will not be able to contact other accused (except for his father) and will not be able to leave Portugal, having surrendered his passport. …
Beuno Macedo has a deposit of 300 thousand euros, which must be paid within 20 days, and like the other defendants, he will not be able to leave the country by surrendering his passport.
Luis Filipe Vieira will be under house arrest until he pays a bail of three million euros without an electronic bracelet, and he will have 20 days to pay this amount. A passport will also be requested due to the risk of the flight, and there will be no contact with Benfica board members.
will take place on wednesday
The Benfica businessman and president, removed from office, was questioned by Judge Carlos Alexander this Saturday, as he was the last person interrogated in Operation Red Card.
As a result of a lawsuit launched on Wednesday to investigate transactions and financing worth more than 100 million euros, three more people were arrested: businessman Jose Antonio dos Santos, aka King of Chickens, lawyer and football businessman Bruno Macedo and Thiago Vieira, son of Luis. Filipe Vieira. According to the Central Directorate of Investigation and Criminal Affairs (DCIAP), these are facts that can be “breach of trust crimes, qualified fraud, forgery, tax fraud and money laundering”.
In addition to the Novo Banco scam, Luis Filipe Vieira is accused of redirecting € 2.5 million from Benfica to his private world with the help of his son Thiago Vieira, who took over most of the companies. At the heart of the scheme is football manager Bruno Macedo, to whom prosecutors are credited with creating a carousel of companies inside and outside the country through which Benfica’s assets were hidden and then used in the interests of the then president of the club. …
As part of this investigation, some 45 search warrants were issued to search companies, homes, law firms and banking institutions in Lisbon, Torres Vedras and Braga. One of the places where the searches were carried out was Benfica’s SAD, which stated in a statement that it was not an accused.
