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In an interview with TSF, Luís Filipe Vieira was questioned again about the various trials in which he is involved, reiterating that he has a clear conscience.
“Being president of Benfica already gives rise to many envies and doing the job is even worse. Now, the only thing I can guarantee is that I will go home and sleep peacefully about it. The processes are processes, not the media, whoever is judging me. I am convinced that I will go out the front door in any of the processes in which I am charged. What I can tell you is that in the case of “Operation Lex”, I did what you guys would surely do. At the right time you will know. I did not move any influence. How can I influence someone if the State owes me money? What could be resolved in 30 days, was resolved in nine years, “he shot.
The president of Benfica was immediately asked by judge Rui Rangel: “So if Benfica is not going to do any university, how can they promise a position? What Benfica is going to do is a school, until the 12th grade. Rui Rangel didn’t have any promised roles in this school, nor did I think about it. We have a partner and even the percentages are already defined, we are waiting for the approval of the project, I think it will be soon, when it is approved it will become the Benfica school, in a first phase for 650 students ».
On Paulo Gonçalves: «Paulo Gonçalves no longer has business with Benfica. We are still friends. He will be judged, but from what I know, Paulo will not suffer anything special.
And also on the controversy surrounding the inclusion of António Costa and Fernando Medina in the Honor Committee for their re-election to the presidency of the red club: «António Costa is a member of Benfica, he supported me in 2012, in 2016 and now. I don’t know why now, the same man, who is still from Benfica, paying the fees, and there are other clubs that have so many politicians there and nobody says anything. Why was it just António Costa? The person who supported me was the citizen António Costa and not the prime minister. There was already so much pressure on the Prime Minister that he left and I decided to remove everything political. Everything worked out and we fixed the problem. But I don’t understand what the problem is with having António Costa there. This always has to do with the same conversation, that Benfica has a “lobby”. Benfica does not have a lobby, the only lobby that Benfica has is work and credibility. There is nothing else. There are many people who say “Benfica has power”, but what power? Power of what? They call me “wild animal” because I don’t live with anyone. I am impressed when they say that I have terrible power. But what power? Zero. The only power that Benfica has is having its partners, great professionals and great leaders. Now, if Benfica wins … it’s arbitration. Nobody remembers the first games of the championship or the plays in which we got injured. When FC Porto win, for example, they say it was fair, when Benfica win there is always suspicion.
