Benfica responds to the disclosure of Francisco Vera’s contract with Rui Costa

Among the documents that were viewed, and then deleted from this account, are allegations of endorsements by the former sports club, Rúbio Ñú

A Twitter account revealed on Wednesday the contract of Francisco Vera, a Paraguayan player who spent at Benfica B in 2015/2016, a document previously offered by Football Leaks and in which 2.8 million euros is paid to the athlete in five tranches.

Among the documents that were shown, then deleted in this account, not before they were shown to CMTV, are the alleged endorsements by the former sports club, Rúbio Ñú to MasterInternational FZC, allegedly linked to businessman Bruno Macedo, accused as Luis Felipe Scalope in the card operation. red. These papers contain the signatures of incarnated SAD managers at the time Rui Costa and Domingos Soares de Oliveira.

SAD reacted from Benfica shortly thereafter, arguing that this transfer “followed the usual procedures of SAD” whereby the bank bills are “signed by two administrators” and the payment “exclusively to the Paraguayan club from which the player came”. Regarding the aforementioned money, Benfica adds ignorance of its ‘future whereabouts’ and recalls that ‘neither SAD nor its current leaders are accused in the red card operation’. Here is the full reaction:

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1- Sport Lisbon e Benfica clarifies, based on the information revealed by CMTV this evening, that the transfer of the player Francisco Vera followed the usual procedures of the deal, with the transfer contract and the payment of the relevant bank bills signed by two club administrators. sad.
2- Payment for the transfer of this player, through guarantees by issuing a bank invoice, was made exclusively for the Paraguayan club from which the player came.
3- The subsequent fate of this bank guarantee can only be explained by the club that obtained it, with the current presidents of Sport Lisboa e Benfica, i.e. its president Rui Costa, unaware of this decision and unaware of its whereabouts in the future.
4- Sport Lisboa e Benfica has never refused to explain or clarify anything, always cooperating with the authorities in investigating all justified questions. And so it will continue.
5- Sport Lisboa e Benfica confirms that neither SAD nor its current managers are accused in the Cartão Vermelho operation.”