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Lucas Veríssimo, a player recently hired by Benfica, was on the initial passenger list of a private plane in which the Brazilian police found 500 kilograms of cocaine.
That list also included João Loureiro, former president of Boavista, as our newspaper reported, and also three Portuguese businessmen linked to football: Bruno Macedo (representative of Lucas Veríssimo), Bruno Carvalho Santos and Hugo Cajuda.
THE More soccer had access to a travel plan for February 7, which provided that the plane, a Falcon 900 from the Omni company, would depart from the Salvador da Bahia International Airport (Brazil) bound for Tires (Portugal), stopping on the island do Sal. (Cape Verde).
The document then refers to seven passengers: João Loureiro, Lucas Veríssimo, Bruno Macedo, Bruno Carvalho Santos and Hugo Cajuda, in addition to Mansur Ben-barka Heredia and Paulo Saturnino Cunha. According to this plan, Mansur and João Loureiro would have planned a trip for the day before, February 6, from the Jundiaí airport to Salvador de Bahía.
However, these flights were postponed and the Omni plane continued in Salvador, until on the 9th the Brazilian Federal Police found said half a ton of drugs. According to the newspaper O Globo, the contact with the authorities will have come from the air transport company itself.
Speaking to TVI, this Friday, João Loureiro confirmed that he was on the initial list of the flight, but that he had already given up, as he will have informed the responsible company, since he decided to return on a commercial flight.
The former president of Boavista also explained that the first scheduled date for the flight was February 1, but that it was subsequently postponed, which made him look for other alternatives, and that on the 9th he was even in São Paulo. João Loureiro also added that on the trip to Brazil, on January 27, there were problems with cases of wine that were still on board. The Portuguese businessman made this trip with a Spanish citizen who, according to TVI, had already been referred by the Judicial Police on suspicion of drug trafficking.
Contacted by More soccer, an official Benfica source confirmed that Lucas Veríssimo was on the initial list of the aforementioned flight, since this was one of the several alternatives analyzed to bring the player to Portugal, after the final of the Copa Libertadores, taking into account the restrictions of flights. that arose.
The same source explained that this alternative was found by the player’s representative, Bruno Macedo, but ended up being discarded a few days before, among other things because, under the new restrictions imposed at the beginning of February, Lucas Veríssimo could only travel directly to Portugal if were a Portuguese citizen or resident in the country.
Santos’ central contractor ended up traveling on a commercial flight, arriving in Lisbon late in the morning of February 7, precisely via France.
According to the information collected by the More soccer, also the businessmen Bruno Carvalho Santos and Hugo Cajuda, who were in Brazil watching the final of the Copa Libertadores, won by Palmeiras de Abel (to whom they are professionally linked), ended up ruling out the return on that flight, because in the meantime the possibility of negotiating a player in Brazil, where they still are.
