Corinthians president Augusto Melo denied any possibility of waiving office if he is denounced by the Civil Police in the investigation that investigates possible irregularities in the intermediation of the sponsorship contract between the club and the book of Betting Vaidebet.
“Never. I have nothing to do with it. These are always the same negotiations. Everything I do, has the legal and the compliance that gives me the support,” said the top hat on Friday (16).
“I will never renounce, first because I have nothing to do with it. I’m here for Corinthians, I don’t need Corinthians. The other day, there was an athlete with two businessmen, two intermediaries. Today is like this, it’s normal. I never felt with anyone, I never discuss anything alone,” added Augusto Melo.
The leader deposed on the condition of investigated in the final stretch of investigations, which began almost a year ago.
A partial report from the São Paulo Civil Police points out that a soccer -playing company, which was accused of having an alleged connection with the criminal faction PCC (first command of the capital), received more than $ 1 million from payments made by Corinthians.
Formally, the justification for money transfers was the intermediation of the contract between the Football Club and the Online Sports Betting House.
In all, R $ 1,074,150 reached the bank account of the company UJ Football Talent Intermediation. The company was the target of the award -winning report of realtor Antonio Vinícius Lopes Gritzbach, murdered in November at São Paulo International Airport in Guarulhos.
According to the denunciation, UJ Football was laundering money from trafficking in the acquisition of athletes from the elite of Brazilian football.
Corinthians’ money would have arrived to the company from the club’s payments to the company Social Media Design. She belongs to Alex Fernando André, Alex Cassundé, who was part of the communication team of the current president of Corinthians, Augusto Melo, during the election campaign in which he ran for office.
Sought, Alex Cassundé’s defense stated that he “has no knowledge about the payments sequence” after his transfers to the neoway, that he is unaware of the other companies involved has no knowledge about payments made to UJ Football.
Corinthians published an official note on their site stating that “there is no demonstration of authorship related to the facts mentioned” and that “the club president reaffirms his full support for investigations ongoing, as well as all initiatives aimed at investigating eventual involvement in organized crime in Brazilian football.” The report was unable to contact UJ Football and Vaidebet.
The complaint that oranges companies would have received money from Corinthians motivated the termination of Vaidebet’s contract with the club in June last year. The sponsorship of the betting house had been the first major contract signed by the management of Augusto Melo.
