Isabel Almeida ends every sentence with a smile. It is explained well in detail with intonation. Say what you want. And there are things that clearly would stress.
At BES, was “a subordinate employee.” To whom? “Exclusively, the Morais Pires,” the former administrator for financial matters. “I worked on the instructions of Morais Pires, without the instructions which no relevant decision, ever, was taken.”
But it was not just his former boss – with who admits to being “shocked”, as we shall see – that pointed responsibilities. Banco de Portugal, to know much of what was going on, and have not given time to the bank to avoid the resolution, critical are left. To troika, which had information “very detailed” and did nothing. A repair to follow, even for the two men that preceded this room, José Castella, the treasurer of the GES, and Machado da Cruz, the accountant or, as he refers Ricardo Salgado, the Commissaire aux comptes .
“As I have nothing to hide, here I am, without hiding,” said Isabel Almeida, criticizing their former colleagues, using the prerogative of being accused, led deputies to listen to them behind closed doors (which will put many problems in the future, since their statements can not be used to confront other witnesses, or transcribed into the minutes. But this is a problem that does not arise to intervention by the former financial director).
For the minutes, Isabel Almeida wanted to bring all the distance that separates de Morais Pires and Ricardo Salgado. The first says, “reneged 18 years of working together,” to accuse her, in this committee, to receive direct instructions from Ricardo Salgado. “It shocked me the testimony of Morais Pires, because he already had me shocked a few months before.” The testimony of the former banker was different … “I know Ricardo Salgado was very complimentary. I do not know what was the objective. I hope it was genuine. I never heard him so many public praise as I heard on television now. “
Isabel Almeida is accused, research that prosecutors leads to the facts that led to the resolution of the BES, and responds also in the process of offense established by the Bank of Portugal. But to Members, it is shown safe and claims that it has collaborated with these other “also own bodies.”
Furthermore, regrets having kept the BES and suffered ” losses “as the other shareholders affected by the fall of the Holy Spirit empire. With one difference: “My name was vilified in the public square.” Hence the “hurt” and “deep sense of injustice” that says feel. Even said that she had attended a meeting of the administration who succeeded Salgado, led by Vítor Bento, to confess his role in suspicious financial maneuvers and that even cried. “Do not confessed anything. There is nothing to confess. Nothing was hidden. And I did not cry, “assures with a smile.
Although, in front, if desenrolasse a plot that, at this distance, it almost seems comical, but reveals the runaway the GES lived in the final months, Isabel Almeida explained to Members that BES point in financing to companies within the GES and these then appropriated the funds. Sometimes each other … There are three movements that have not met the bop guidelines: an operation that “went out of control” related to the loan Japanese bank Nomura to Espírito Santo Financial Group, which add two more irregularities, a 20 million euros held by Banque Privée and EUR 28 million left in Esfil- Holy Spirit Financière – but whose fate would Rioforte, the holding the non-financial part of the same group …
“It was quite impossible for any employee of the BES, now New Bank, knowing” that the accounts of companies [ESI, Rioforte, ESFG] that issued commercial paper placed to retail branches “were doctored”, says Isabel Almeida. She herself was unaware of that fact.
The same BES former director evokes who asked Ricardo Salgado and Pires Morais who were explaining to Team Vitor Bento “whole theme of the obligations” [mobilized through Eurofin], but both “refused”. “And I can not say more …”
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