The day he was sentenced to one year and ten months in prison, with a suspended sentence, the communication director of FC Porto, Francisco J. Marques, assured on Twitter that he never manipulated the Benfica emails released.
“I never tampered with anything. I sent the complete emails to the newspapers that requested them, Récord and O Jogo. If I had wanted to manipulate, truncate, hide, I obviously wouldn’t have done it. The fight continues”, can be read in the tweet of Francisco J. Marques.
The leader of the dragons was punished with ten months in prison for the crime of aggravated correspondence or telecommunications, and another year and two months for the crime against the legal entity.
Francisco J. Marques, who, like the other two defendants, was not present at the reading of the sentence, which took place in the Central Criminal Court of Lisbon, was imposed a judicial sanction of one year and ten months , with suspended prison. sentence for the same term.
Last January, in the final arguments, the prosecutor of the Public Ministry (MP), Ana País, requested the conviction of Francisco J. Marques, communication director of FC Porto, for three crimes of violation of non-consensual correspondence, but left the sentence “for the consideration of the court”, taking into account “the absence of a criminal record” of the accused.
Source: TSF
