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At issue are crimes of qualified tax fraud and forgery of documents, related to a alleged scheme using fictitious IT consultancy contracts.
This Wednesday, the Public Ministry (MP) requested the sentencing of former Benfica president Luís Filipe Vieira to a suspended sentence of at least three years and nine months in prison in the Saco Azul case.
In the final arguments of the trial, in Lisbon, the prosecutor also argued for the application of the same penalty to the former executive director (CEO) of Benfica Domingos Soares de Oliveira and the club’s former financial director Miguel Moreira.
At issue are crimes of qualified tax fraud and forgery of documents, related to a alleged scheme of the defendants to, using fictitious IT consultancy contractswithdraw from Benfica more than 1.8 million euroswhich will then, in large part, return to the club in cash.
