Nélio Lucas, on loan from Doyen to FC Porto: «Memory is not an iron» – Football Leaks

Nélio Lucas, former director of Doyen, revealed this Tuesday that, after another session of the ‘Football Leaks’ trial, he did not remember the details about the investment fund loans to FC Porto’s SAD.

Before journalists about the moment when he was questioned by Francisco Teixeira da Mota, one of Rui Pinto’s lawyers, about a sum that appears in the SAD accounts of FC Porto as a loan of 3 million euros granted by Banco Carregosa , entity. bank that will have worked with Doyen, Nélio Lucas said that he does not remember how the operation was carried out.

“I faced some specific situations and memory is not iron,” said Nélio Lucas. “You have to ask FC Porto. I don’t work at FC Porto, I can’t talk about it. I have already clarified this issue from the inside. As FC Porto registered the operation, you have to ask FC Porto. It is certainly documented and well documented , as Doyen has always done in all his contracts, “added Nélio Lucas.” If FC Porto registered the loan as Banco Carregosa, it was because it was Banco Carregosa that made the loan, “insisted the former administrator of Doyen.

As for Alexandre Pinto da Costa, Nélio Lucas admitted having made deals and payments to the businessman and son of the president of FC Porto. “Alexandre Pinto da Costa is a businessman like any other, he did business with me and I am proud of the business I did with him. If I can do something else, I will do it,” he said.

After the morning the Doyen’s defense tried to stop Rui Pinto’s defense problemsNélio Lucas admits that “what was clarified there has nothing to do with the crimes at stake.” “An example was invented that I really liked. If the house is stolen and we are discussing the theft each one, I do not have to justify how I bought the house. The court understood that I would like clarification and I gave the clarifications that I had to provide “, justified.