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Avelino Gaspar, president of the board of directors of Lusiaves, a group of companies in the agri-food sector, will be tried for a crime of money laundering, co-authored with Mário Pinto, the Viseu Court decided. According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP), he is accused of having outlined a plan, in 2006, to transfer and dismantle the assets of the Avilafões company, to one of the companies of the Lusiaves group (Campoaves).
The objective would be to cause insolvency and harm creditors. In 2009, he tried to launder capital – 1 million euros – in an offshore company, Risa Finance LLC, which, according to the MP, was managed by the businessman himself. The defendants run the risk of having to pay civil damages in excess of 1.6 million euros.
TO CMIn September, Lusiaves said that he believed that, in the investigation, it would be possible “to provide clear and unequivocal evidence that there was no objectionable or illegal act.” This did not happen and the case is even going to trial.Avelino Gaspar, founder of Lusiaves, is the father of Paulo Gaspar, leader of Triun, a company that acquired 23% of Media Capital from Prisa, becoming the second largest shareholder of the owner of TVI, after Mário Ferreira (30.22% ). The name of Avelino Gaspar is proposed as a member of the board of directors and president of the Remuneration Committee of the Governing Bodies of Media Capital. The son, Paulo, for vice president of the media group. The general assembly elects the new bodies on the 24th.
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