This Tuesday, Benfica accused the Disciplinary Council (CD) of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) of “bad faith”, after the federative body opened a disciplinary process against the reds, presumably for legal reasons.
“It manifests bad faith of the Disciplinary Council that can only be justified in light of the recurring disrespectful and persecutory conduct towards Sport Lisboa e Benfica”, read a statement from the ‘eagles’.
The CD of the FPF announced that it had opened a disciplinary process against the SAD of Benfica, “following the news published in the media, insofar as the facts now known may be different from those considered in other disciplinary proceedings “.
What is at stake, according to the media, is that Benfica SAD and the members of the Board of Directors for the 2016/2020 period who are still in office were prosecuted on January 3, in a process in which ” are at stake, supposedly, there will be a process in which the crimes derived from the hacked emails to Benfica are investigated and where other processes were added, such as Vouchers and Mala Ciao”, according to Diário de Notícias.
“Sport Lisboa e Benfica repudiates the decision of the Disciplinary Council to have instituted a disciplinary procedure in the absence of new facts related to a matter already subject to past monitoring”, refer to the ‘incarnated’.
For Benfica, the start of this process is “an even more unacceptable decision taking into account that the Commission of League Instructors, the body that should have notified Sport Lisboa e Benfica in time, did not do so either, with the club taking awareness of this disciplinary process through the media”.
“There are too many coincidences and errors for those who, having the status of public sport utility, are in charge of defending Portuguese football, but who, successively, fall into the submission of specific rival interests of Sport Lisboa e Benfica”, assume in ‘águilas’ .
According to the DN, in this judicial process the defendants are Rui Costa, current president of the club, Domingos Soares Oliveira, Luís Filipe Vieira, José Eduardo Moniz and Nuno Gaioso Ribeiro, all of them administrators, or former administrators, of the Benfica company. .
The newspaper adds that the objective must be to avoid possible prescriptions, since many of these investigations have been carried out for several years, revealing that “no one has been the subject of any questioning.”
Source: TSF
