Block puts Luís Filipe Vieira, son and former Benfica manager, in the Novo Banco investigation



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Luís Filipe Vieira, as head of Promovalor, and Tiago Vieira, his son, head of Promovalor and shareholder of C2 Ventures (formerly Capital Criativo), are on the list of personalities and entities to which Bloco de Esquerda intends to be summoned to clarify commission of investigation to Novo Banco. Nuno Gaioso Ribeiro, founding partner of C2 Ventures and former Benfica manager, is also on the list.

A Promovalor debt is at stake, from the president of Benfica, with Novo Banco, which became a Capital Criativo fund in 2018, making the economic group one of the bank’s biggest debtors, causing losses of 225 million between 2014 and 2018 In fact, the operations at Promovalor were being a kind of specific audit of Novo Banco.

Among the large debtors there is also another personality in the summons delivered by BE, Nuno Vasconcellos, head of Ongoing, former head of Diário Economico and shareholder of PT. In progress he left a debt of around 600 million euros in the bank.

The parties have until this Monday 28 to make known what data they consider essential to take to the parliamentary investigation on the losses of Novo Banco attributed to the Resolution Fund (which has already been forced to deposit there 7,000 million euros), Later there will be space for consensus on what are the priorities for all. BE calls 18 personalities.

Carlos Costa, Luís Máximo dos Santos, Maria Luís Albuquerque, Mário Centeno and António Ramalho are included in the Block’s request, to join João Costa Pinto, author of the evaluation report on the follow-up carried out by the Bank of Portugal in the last years of life of BES. – Document that the former governor never wanted to deliver to Parliament.

The heads of the Novo Banco monitoring committee, which oversees the management of the bank’s loans and other problematic assets on behalf of the Resolution Fund, are also in the BE call.

Regarding the European authorities, Blogo -which is represented in this commission by Mariana Mortágua and Jorge Costa- also calls Ger Koopman and Peer Ritter, both from the European Commission, respectively deputy general directors of Competition and responsible for state aid to the sector. financial.

All parties must present their proposals (PCP, PSD and PAN have already done so and BE has already delivered the request for the requested documentation), after which there will have to be a consensus on which ones to prioritize, among other things because the commission of inquiry only lasts until April.

Since its request for documentation, the party had already requested information on all loans and properties that have been sold, either in portfolio or individually.

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