{"id":218620,"date":"2022-01-07T06:01:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.bullfrag.com\/the-former-president-of-benfica-investigated-for-alleged-bribery\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T06:01:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:31:25","slug":"the-former-president-of-benfica-investigated-for-alleged-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/the-former-president-of-benfica-investigated-for-alleged-bribery\/","title":{"rendered":"The former president of Benfica, investigated for alleged bribery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"sp-authorbox\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<figure class=\"thumb hidden md-visible\">\n\t\t<br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<div class=\"authorInfo\">\n<div class=\"txt\">\n<p>\t<time class=\"date\" datetime=\"2022-01-06T18:28:43+01:00\"><br \/>\n\t    <span><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">\n<p>\t\t    \tJan 06, 2022 at 18:28 \t    \t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t    \t<abbr title=\"Hora de Europa Central\">CET<\/abbr>\n\t\t    <\/p>\n<p>\t    <\/span><br \/>\n\t<\/time><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The former president of Benfica Lu\u00eds Filipe Vieira is being investigated for allegedly receiving bribes in 55 club player transfer deals between 2012 and 2020, which generated commissions of more than 10 million euros, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from the Portuguese Tax Authority in the framework of the &#8220;Red Card&#8221; investigation, <strong>The former president of Benfica would have been involved with businessmen Bruno Macedo, Ulisses Santos, Isidoro Gim\u00e9nez and Giuliano Bertolucci in the sale of players, according to the CNN Portugal channel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation considers that these four sports agents participated in an alleged Vieira scheme to later covertly return commissions, as well as property.<\/p>\n<p>Among the affected players would be<strong> Julien Weigl, Horic Seferovic, \u00c9verton Cebolinha, Morato and Lisandro L\u00f3pez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The documents show contracts &#8220;with suspicious lines (&#8230;) because they use corporate structures of non-residents subject to more favorable taxation, for which it is important to know the true beneficiaries of the profits obtained,&#8221; the channel reported.<\/p>\n<p>For the transfer of Horic Seferovic, according to the same media, he would have generated a commission of one million euros, for the transfer of \u00c9verton Cebolinha he would have obtained 1.2 million euros and for the sale of Lisandro L\u00f3pez to Boca Juniors, 1.4 millions.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <strong>there are indications that these were operations that allowed the diversion of funds from Benfica to third parties<\/strong>, of which the real beneficiaries have yet to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>He adds that a notebook with handwritten annotations has also been found that for the inspectors indicates the existence of a distribution of funds in favor of Vieira after an agreement related to the player Derlis Mereles.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Ministry requested the lifting of the bank accounts of all the companies, about a dozen of them in &#8220;offshore&#8221; companies with which Benfica did business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vieira was arrested last July along with his son and two other businessmen after searches in 45 dependencies <\/strong>to clarify businesses of more than 100 million euros that could lead to different tax crimes and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>This operation led to Vieira&#8217;s departure from the Benfica presidency after 18 years at the head of the club. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 06, 2022 at 18:28 CET The former president of Benfica Lu\u00eds Filipe Vieira is being investigated for allegedly receiving bribes in 55 club player transfer deals between 2012 and 2020, which generated commissions of more than 10 million euros, according to local media. 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