The coordinator of the Judicial Police unit that fights corruption warns that there are first Portuguese league clubs that are used for the bleaching of illicit capital, something that is a “concern” and a reason for investigation.
Luís Ribeiro, the coordinator of the National Judicial Police Corruption Unit (PJ), spoke during the Finantial Integrity and Transparency in Sport Forum (Integrity and Financial Transparency in Sport) that took place last week in Lisbon.
The interventions in this initiative were released online and Luís Ribeiro stressed that there are “some clubs” Portuguese where “the entry of clearly unidentified capital As for its origin, nor about the objectives of those who acquire a club. ”
“Unfortunately, the Clubs are used to whiten earnings of illicit origin“, Warned the PJ unit coordinator, noting that whenever large amounts are invested in Portuguese clubs, the authorities are alerted and investigate.
And often it is detected “the exit of this money in a way that is not noticeable”, also analyzed Luís Ribeiro.
The PJ leader highlighted, namely, suspicions about the Athletes Image Rights“That work without defined value”. Clubs spend money “through without great clarity and with overvalued values,” he noticed.
Luís Ribeiro also gave examples of “Intermediate Committees Payments in a way that is not completely clear ”, and“ contracts celebrated with overvalued values so that this money leaves the clubs in a apparently lawful way. ”
“But when you do a more detailed analysis, it is clear that those values are not at all proportional face what they intended to pay,” he concluded.
“We have Overvalued or fictitious contractswhich only serve to justify the exit of money and to allow the surplus to revert to other purposes, ”he said.
