Members will receive “exhaustive list” on the ESCOM business – TVI24

Members will receive "exhaustive list" on the ESCOM business – TVI24

Members of the committee of inquiry to Banco Espírito Santo and Espírito Santo Group will have access to an “exhaustive list” of who received what and how much the business of submarines. The president of ESCOM, the company of the Holy Spirit Group dedicated to real estate and the extraction of diamonds in Angola, said that even the Members in its hearing on Tuesday.

“It will help to detail the understanding of this matter,” stated Helder Battaglia, in the first round of questions.

The president of the commission of inquiry, Fernando Negrao, had a meeting, on Monday, with Luis Horta e Costa, heard in this committee . ‘It was agreed in the short term that will be delivered to the commission, “added Fernando Negrao.

The contract of ESCOM with the Germans in the business of submarines, worth 27 million euros in premiums. The figure was confirmed by Helder Battaglia Members. “From the overall value was very little to ESCOM. Was distributed to managers and shareholders. ” ESCOM received only the “services”.

Asked by Mrs Mariana Mortágua, the Left Bloc, about the context of the sale of ESCOM to Sonangol, explained that “the historical phase that picks up the sale, in 2010,” was “the nine discovery anomalies in the farming area [in the Luo mine], two of which of large dimensions. ” “I hired a large South African company, to definitely make the analysis of the geological reality”. This is the ‘stage’ business’.

At that time, the information was not substantiated. In 2011 alone the actual capacity of the Luo mine were cleared, much lower than the initial estimate, the president of ESCOM. Your company. informed the company’s auditors. It was necessary to record impairment (losses) in the accounts.

Remember that the five branches of the family Holy Spirit present in the High Council of GES were 5 million (one for each) in the business of submarines. Of the total of 27 million, 16.5 million were for the three directors of ESCOM (Luis Horta e Costa, Pedro Neto and the very Helder Battaglia) and Miguel Horta e Costa, who proposed the deal and served as a consultant.

The rest was for the operation itself, with charges as lawyers, financial advisors, including BES, and technical advice, for example. The GES administrators did not have to do anything to receive the money.

Ten years later, the GES administrators used the RERT, a system created by the José Sócrates Government to regularize undeclared assets in Portugal. At a meeting of the High Council of the GES, in 2013, Ricardo Salgado said he was “surrounded by cheaters” in the business of submarines.

Battaglia recalls today that “passed exactly 10 years between what [Ricardo Salgado] woke up and what he said. Nor do I understand why the contradiction. ”