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Since 2019, Bacalhôa Vinhos de Portugal SA, a company owned by Joe Berardo, has been working on the transformation of a building that once housed a bus station, located in the middle of the Arrábida Natural Park Reserve. This, without having obtained a license for the works.
The news is advanced by Público, a newspaper to which the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF) confirmed that the work is not authorized and, in November 2019, “the Nature Watchers team raised a car” against La herself.
It was only after this situation at the end of last year that the company issued an opinion that was later rejected for not complying with the rules of the current planning plan. According to the ICFN, the work differs from what is established in two articles of the plan, the first that defines the area as a “space of natural and scenic value” and the second that only allows work related to agriculture to be carried out there, the herding or tourism. of the nature.
The fact that the building is located in a reserved area means that the works cannot be carried out without complying with the Arrábida Natural Park Management Plan.
In a recent meeting of the Municipal Assembly of Setúbal, Maria das Dores Meira, mayor, explained that the case is “in the process of legalization.”
Also according to Public, the building that is being transformed by Joe Berardo was acquired by the Madeira businessman at the beginning of 2019 from Transportadora Setubalense – Belos, of the Barraqueiro Group, by Humberto Pedrosa, for 2,125 million euros. The objective is to create there a cultural space and a wine interpretation center called the Berardo Bacalhôa Collection.
It is recalled that it was also in 2019, in April, when Caixa Geral de Depósito, BCP and Novo Banco delivered an executive action to collect Berardo’s debts, of almost 1,000 million euros, in the Judicial District of Lisbon. José Berardo and two companies related to the entrepreneur.
The amount owed to the three financial entities amounts to 962 million euros.
