António Cotrim / Lusa
The former president of BES Angola was invited by businessman José Paulo Fafe to invest in the titles. Mystery around the background resolves-or thickens.
Ten months ago, the communication regulatory entity suspended the rights of World Opportunity Fund (WOF). At issue was the “lack of transparency” in relation to the beneficiaries.
After the purchase of the titles “Diário de Notícias”, “Jornal de Notícias” and “TSF” for the mysterious background, José Paulo Fafe (Old owner of the “such and which”) was appointed executive president of the Global Media Group (GMG), which encompassed these communication bodies.
Now, an investigation from the found that the fund has links to Angolan businessman Álvaro Sobrinho, information that he himself admitted.
which has been being investigated for money laundering for over a decade in Portugal, confessed that the fund has been run by a Fortune Management Company in Switzerland, UCAP, and was registered in 2016 in Bahamas.
Bahamas have already part of the European Union ‘jurisdictions (of which the country came out only in 2024) for lack of transparency. The place is considered a fiscal paradise.
At the time, questioned in Parliament about the last beneficiary of the secret fund, José Paulo Fafe assured that the only one was Clément Ducasse, The administrator of the management society, UCAP Bahamas Limited.
Marco Galinha, who sold the titles in the background, the last year that Don’t know who’s behind His, and assured that the negotiation was conducted by lawyers.
Now Álvaro Sobrinho says he received a fafe proposal to invest in GMG. “I answered them: they are crazy. But I told them that there are managing societies prone to such risks. ”
“I answered them: they are crazy. But I told them that there are managing societies prone to such risks. ”
Admitted that he had meetings with Luís Bernardo about the operation of Global Media and that had at least one meeting with Marco Galinha At this entrepreneur’s hotel to celebrate the group’s control business to the WOF. “It was with Fafe that I spoke first, only later did Luís Bernardo appeared and we had meetings.”
Luís Bernardo, founder of TVI and suspected of corruption last year, demarcate Of the allegations: “It makes no sense, from the outset, the issues that are directed to me around the WOF and the global media group, since I did not have – nor do I have – any relationship with the aforementioned background nor do I know your structure, decisions or activities”.
Sobrinho, former president of BES Angola who had a Portuguese passport, had previously invested in Portuguese communication agencies, Sol Eoi, and Printer Gráfica.
