Operation Lex: Luís Filipe Vieira accused in corruption case



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Vieira is accused of receiving an improper advantage.

This Friday, the Public Ministry announced the imputation of 17 defendants, among them Luís Filipe Vieira and Rui Rangel, in Operation Lex. This Friday, the Public Ministry (MP) announced the imputation of 17 defendants, in Operation Lex, for crimes of passive and active corruption due to an illicit act, improper reception of advantage, abuse of power, usurpation of functions, document falsification. , tax fraud and money laundering. Luís Filipe Vieira is one of the accused.

As the DN had already anticipatedor, among the seventeen defendants are also Luís Filipe Vieira and José Veiga. The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) considers them suspects of the practice of crimes of passive and active corruption by illicit act, improper reception of advantage, abuse of power, usurpation of functions, falsification of documents, tax fraud and money laundering.

>> The case of Luís Filipe Vieira

One of the cases in this investigation involves Luís Filipe Vieira and refers to a tax process contested by the president of Benfica and on which Rangel requested information from the magistrates involved. The president of Benfica is accused of receiving an undue advantage.

Despite not being able to influence a favorable outcome for Vieira – the payment of 1.6 million euros has not been canceled – the investigation found that Rangel benefited from offers of seats in the presidential gallery of Estádio da Luz and trips abroad . In fact, in the process, several messages are transcribed between Rangel and the two men from Benfica who made the connection between Vieira and the magistrate, that is, Fernando Tavares and Jorge Barroso.



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