Businessman José Guilherme negotiate debt restructuring with … – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
                         

The answer soon, yet the civil constructor José Guilherme da Conceição is keen to point out to Members “doubts” that raises you the questionnaire sent by the committee of inquiry to BES management, since, claims, questions that are made relate “exclusively private nature of relationships, personal and business.” The six of them, does not answer, simply because it “player in a process running phrases” DCIAP, the celebrated case Mont Blanc, a network of tax evasion.

                     

                         However “private” and “commercial” that is the matter, the builder ends up admitting to have used the Special Regime Tax Adjustment (RERT): “I paid all taxes due from such tax regularization”. Admits also that “in August 2014,” when the BES was the target of a measure of resolution by the Bank of Portugal, was “about 121 million euros” to the bank, together with their personal debts to their businesses and sureties and guarantees provided to third parties.

At the end of 2012, this debt was “about 204 million euros.” Therefore, and the difficulties that crosses the business of construction and Angola, which is based most of its activity, as found “imperative to find a restructuring agreement solution” to this debt. Since the resolution, has held “talks with the New Bank” in order “to determine the debt” in his charge “and to restructure it.”

This is just the tip of an iceberg of strange “commercial” relations between the bank and the builder. In 2006, Escom, the Espírito Santo Group (GES), sold its share to Joseph William in a building in Luanda, the Sky Towers (then called Torres Escom). For 33% of the contribution, the builder paid to Escom seven million dollars. Three years later, in 2009, Escom repurchased share equally in the builder … for $ 32 million.

In their replies, the builder describes a complex network of companies that make the business even more difficult to understand “Participation has not been sold. The acquisition of interests in Escom, Real Estate Limited (the Vergui and the Guimavi) was repealed. ” This all between Lisbon, Luanda and the British Virgin Islands, a carousel of companies, all linked to Joseph William (the such Vergui and Guimavi) and GES.

In the middle of all this, William will have taken 14 million to Ricardo Salgado. It was a “liberal” as assumes the banker. A kind of “gift”. How Come? Not Salgado or William, speak of the matter.

The builder prefers complain about the money they lost. “With the resolution determined by the Bank of Portugal has already lost about 25 million euros” in bonds, debentures and GES units. But if the negotiations of “restructuring” of its debt to the New Bank succeed, the balance may be different.