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Augusto Baganha, former president of the IPDJ, reiterates to O GOGO that the Government will have interceded in favor of the eagles.
Augusto Baganha, former president of the Portuguese Institute of Sports and Youth (IPDJ), gave a brief interview to O JOGO, admitting that he had suffered “pressure” from the Government so that Benfica was not sanctioned in certain circumstances. DIAP Lisboa will have opened an investigation following a complaint that reached the Attorney General’s Office, in which Baganha witnessed the notes he took during meetings with the Minister of Education, Tiago Brandão Rodrigues. “I mentioned it a while ago and I reconfirm these pressures – without wanting to give concrete cases, because the issue is within the jurisdiction of Justice. I don’t want to comment, but I can say that there were more public pressures and other more private ones, ”he reveals. Leaving the guarantee that the attempt to intercede in sport only happened to the red one: “Pressure only for Benfica, never for other clubs. I have no knowledge of others.”
The ban on Estádio da Luz, in July 2017, for a few days, but which Benfica avoided with the correction of the security regulations, is one of the moments that will have led to such situations, a process explained by the former IPDJ leader. “Benfica has its regulations agreed, but at that time, in a way, they had a dispute with the regulations, which was not in accordance with the law. We said no and even intercepted the field. It was so illegal that Benfica was forced to correct ”, he recalls, without confirming that this interdiction motivated Tiago Brandão Rodrigues’s words in favor of the eagles.“ Benfica is above the law. We cannot treat all clubs equally. Benfica has more followers than the population of some countries “, according to the” Correio da Manhã “, which describes a meeting in the summer. 2017 between the minister, the Secretary of State for Sports and Youth, João Paulo Rebelo, and the IPDJ Baganha does not want to enter into considerations that are given to Justice.
A source close to the Ministry of Education assures O JOGO that the published sentences have no real antecedents, rejecting any type of interference in favor of Benfica. “Given that nothing and no one is above the law and that the clubs have to comply with the legal determinations attributed to them, these statements are meaningless, so the complaint does not have any sense or foundation either. The minister and the Secretary The State Department will always collaborate with the authorities and higher authorities, without having knowledge of any ongoing process, in addition, it is very clear what the guardianship has shown with its action, towards solid compliance with the law, that is, the so-called law of violence in sport, which has been altered, guaranteeing greater efficiency, greater procedural speed and greater accountability of the agents in their compliance ”, was expressed in a note made available by the minister’s advice, reinforcing that the creation of the Authority for the Prevention and Combating of Violence in Sport “demonstrates a total exemption from the application of the law.”
The ministry regrets the “years of media coverage” around the case, since the IPDJ team changed, with Vítor Pataco taking over as leader in September 2018. Baganha denies that there was an agreement for his departure: “There is an office exonerating me and Lídia Praça, which is incoherent and badly founded. There was a public contest and I wanted to fulfill the mandate until the end. I did not make the place available. There was no agreement. “
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