The former Secretary of State for Treasury and Finance, Miguel Frasquilho, is an ambassador for this soccer academy and, in a statement sent to the TSF, condemns and does not agree with “any potentially illegal activity” under the responsibility of this academy. He adds that he hopes that everything will be investigated, that the truth will be clarified and all the consequences will be duly investigated.
“I am completely unaware of the current day-to-day of the Bsports Academy, as well as what happens there, nor have I ever visited the current facilities. I have never been aware of potentially less lawful practices that have been committed. in the field of the Bsports Academy”, can be read in the same note by Miguel Frasquilho.
In this statement, the former Secretary of State for Finance and Treasury also says that he has “non-executive” functions, as ambassador, which are reduced to approaching national and international, institutional and business entities, to present the project of this soccer academy that he is now under suspicion of human trafficking.
“I visited the previous Bsports facilities, in the municipality of Paredes, in November 2020 and I did not notice any potentially illegal activity, on the contrary, the facilities seemed to me of high quality, according to the evaluation and classification carried out by DGERT,” he added. the former Secretary of State for Finance and Treasury.
However, Miguel Frasquilho does not clarify whether, despite all these suspicions, he will continue as an ambassador for this soccer academy or not.
The house of the president of the General Assembly of the Club League, Mário Costa, was raided on Monday by the Foreign and Border Service (SEF) on suspicion of human trafficking.
The news was reported by the newspaper Expresso, which also added that Mário Costa was accused by the Public Ministry on suspicion of participation in illegal businesses related to young soccer players from the Far East and South America.
Source: TSF
