Luis Filipe Vieira’s requests to Rangel: “Let’s see if that problem will solve me …” – Benfica

According to TVI, Luís Filipe Vieira “will be charged by the Public Ministry in the Lex case over the next few days, on suspicion of having pressured Judge Rui Rangel to accelerate a tax case against the president of Benfica who was in court. Sintra “.

According to the Queluz station, “the direct pressure is documented in several exchanges of messages and wiretaps that TVI divulges and says” they have had an effect. ” Rangel spoke with a colleague from the Relação de Lisboa, a judge, who in turn questioned the president of the Sintra Court about the status of the Benfica president’s case. And this was to ask the judge responsible for the case for explanations, as the magistrate later told the Judicial Police in the investigation of the Lex case, “says the television channel. According to the report, also the lawyer Jorge Barroso, Vieira’s advisor in Benfica even called the Sintra Court to request meetings with the judge in the case, invoking the name of the Benfica president as interested.

TVI also guarantees that “the compensation to Rangel, for the favors rendered, would be the promise of a future position at Benfica, paid, and the fact that he will continue to enjoy privileged treatment in national and foreign club matches, especially in the Foreign”. .