The final dispatch of the indictment signed by a group of public prosecutors led by José Ranito, there is a point on “testimonial evidence and by making statements”, where they list the people who were heard by the Central Department of Investigation and Criminal Action ( DCIAP) over the six years of investigation, of the Universe Espírito Santo process.
According to the Criminal Procedure Code, and “because the procedure proves to be exceptionally complex”, and also given the time period in question, “the number of (offended) people involved, the pecuniary values found, the number of imputed crimes , the extension of the documentary evidence, the Public Ministry indicates a
number of witnesses whose hearing is required, exceeding 20 ”. In the specific case, we counted 122.
Who is among the witnesses to an investigation process launched in 2014 and which ended yesterday? We met Fernando Ulrich, BPI’s non-executive chairman and at the time of BES’s resolution in 2014, the bank’s CEO. But also José Maria Ricciardi, who was president of BES Investimento – the bank contracted for the construction of ESI and Rioforte’s domestic paper programs, in September 2013, unaware of the reality of liability concealment, which the prosecuting order calls “ non-conformities in ESI accounts ”.
According to the reports in the file, José Maria Ricciardi told Ricardo Salgado that he would report the situation to the supervision and that he was unaware of the state of ESI’s accounts. This is the accumulation of 1.3 billion euros of debt in ESI was the result of losses, at least, since 2009, and that was not visible in the company’s balance sheet.
From the Espírito Santo family, Peter Brito and Cunha, former president of Tranquilidade, were pressured to invest 150 million euros in Rioforte’s commercial paper, in the last days of Ricardo Salgado at the head of BES and Carloto Beirão da Veiga, the administrator of the Herdade da Comporta Fund.
The list of witnesses also includes Francisco Cary, current administrator of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, and at the time administrator of BESI, and António Ramalho, current president of Novo Banco.
But also Pedro Queiroz Pereira, who died in August 2018. It should be remembered that in 2013, a conflict between Semapa’s entrepreneur and Ricardo Salgado set off in a judicial dispute in which he was placed in
highlight a possible misrepresentation of the GES holding accounts, a fact that will have been revealed to banking supervision in the second half of 2013.
Queiroz Pereira accused Ricardo Salgado of intending to capture liquidity outside GES, through the Semapa Group, and as such to continue an attempt to take partial control of this Group.
Also on the list is Rita Amaral Cabral, close to Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and the non-executive director of BES, and Sikander Sattar, who led the KPMG auditor. In addition to Helder Batáglia, former leader of Escom, who confessed to prosecutors that it was not said that no to Ricardo Salgado. For the Public Ministry, Helder Batáglia’s testimony in another case, Operation Marquis, became essential.
Also the builder José Guilherme, who gave 14 million euros to Ricardo Salgado, and which the former president of BES justified as being a liberality, that is, a personal gift from the builder who was a customer of the bank and had credit granted by the institution.
Amadora’s biggest civil builder decided to invest in Angola because he would have convinced Ricardo Salgado years ago. For this reason, and for the support that the banker gave him to enter Angola as one of the biggest real estate investors in Luanda, the businessman decided to thank him with a transfer of 14 million euros to a personal account of Ricardo Salgado in Switzerland.
Ricardo Salgado is one of 25 defendants, 18 people and seven companies, accused by the Central Department of Investigation and Criminal Action (DCIAP), who for almost six years tried to unravel a complex web of companies and financial schemes that led to the collapse of the Espírito Santo universe , in 2014.
Here is the list of witnesses in the prosecution order
– Joaquim Paulo
– Vera Pita
– Paulo Fernandes
– Sónia Pacifico
– André Prazeres Henriques
– Sandra Parames
– Clear Costa
– João Gomes Ferreira
– Hugo Oliveira
– Luis Silva
– Alain Rukavina
− Paul Laplume
– Lígia Vieira da Silva – NAT – technical advisor at NAT
– Helena Pacheco – NAT – technical advisor at NAT
– Maria Leonor Dantas Jorge
– António Luís Roquette Ricciardi
– José Maria Espírito Santo Silva Ricciardi
– Fernando Maria Costa Duarte Ulrich
– Pedro Queiroz Pereira (deceased)
– Júlio de Lemos de Castro Caldas
– Jorge Manuel Amaral Penedo
– Lourenço Maria Lopes Saraiva Lobo
− Pierre André Butty
– Jean-Luc Schneider
– José Pedro Torres Garcia Caldeira da Silva
– Erich Dahler
– José Pedro dos Anjos Castanheira
– Sérgio Miguel Carvalho Soares
– Joaquim Aníbal Brito Freixial de Goes
– António José Baptista do Souto
– João Eduardo Moura da Silva Freixa
– João de Faria Rodrigues
– Rui Manuel Duarte Sousa da Silveira
– João Carlos da Piedade Ferreira de Pina
– Sofia Nunes de Azevedo Ferro Gomes
– Sofia Margarida da Cunha Pimenta Dias Coelho
– Rogério Venâncio Simões
– Gonçalo José Cabral de Oliveira Gaspar
− Francisco Ravara Cary
– Eliana Patrícia Amaral de Mesquita Guimarães Nogueira de Barros Marcelino
– Patrícia Afonso Fonseca Moraes Bastos
– José Miguel do Rosário Melo Rodrigues (CMVM)
– João Miguel Fernandes Maldonado Covas,
– Lourenço de Albuquerque D´Orey Vieira de Campos
– Salvador Roque de Pinho, Top Private of Lisbon
– André Fernandes Neves Branco Pereira
– Pedro Salgueiro Texugo de Sousa
– Luís Miguel Alves Ribeiro
– Luis Alexandre Andrade Serra
– Luis Miguel Castro de Melo
– Ruben Manuel Marinho Cruz
– Nuno Renato da Silva Costa
– Paulo Nuno de Sousa Dantas
– Carlos Alberto Alves Lopes
– Paulo Jorge de Castro Resende
– Rui Jorge Guarda dos Santos
– Luís Homem de Mello Barata Correia
– João Maria Amado de Sousa Cabral
– José Pedro Santinha de Oliveira Martins dos Santos
– Luís Miguel Azevedo Faria
– Nuno Miguel Penafort Oliveira
– João Marcelino Duarte Estêvão Coutinho
– Jorge Manuel da Silva Rodrigues Leitão
– Rita Salvação Barreto de Sousa Uva
– Paula Cristina Pinto Peneirol
– Ana Sofia Simões Vasco de Oliveira Porto Muresan, 360º manager
– João Manuel Martins Rocha
– Carlos Alberto Matos Proença
– Luís Fernando Rosa da Costa Ferreira (Bank of Portugal)
– Fernando Manuel de Deus Infante
– Laurence Jacques
– Manuel Alexandre Rocha Barreto
– João Manuel Baptista Nascimento Bruno
– José Fonseca Antunes
– Ana Cristina Pereira Saraiva
– Sikander Abdul Sattar
– Inês Maria Bastos Viegas Clare Neves
– Fernando Gustavo Duarte Antunes, KPMG Portugal
– Isabel Maria Osório de Antas Mégre de Sousa Coutinho
– Rita Maria Lagos do Amaral Cabral
– Horácio Lisboa Afonso
– Fernando Pedro Braga Pereira Coutinho
– Nelson José Pereira Marques Martins
– José Manuel Ruivo Pena
– Alberto Alves de Oliveira Pinto
– Susana Maria Luz Figueiredo Vicente
– Carlos Manuel Garcia Calvário
– Saúl Álvaro Azevedo Martins de Oliveira
– Luís Miguel Vaz do Amaral
– Pedro Manuel Martins Pinheiro Silveira
– Valérie Cholvy
− Christian Goecking
− Laurinda Favre
– Florence Lestiboudois
– Ana Rita Vitorino de Arriaga Ungaro Santos
– Ana Margarida dos Reis and Sousa Piedade Abreu
– Francisco Miguel Casco Batista
– Maria Inês de Morais Amaral Manarte
– Maria Manuela Malheiro de Sousa
– Inês Rodrigues Lobo Soares
– Alexandra Lucas Gameiro Domingues Tostões Pita
– Maria Manuel Rodrigues Martins
– Tiago Aranda Vianna da Motta Brandão
– Ana Mafalda de Madeira Lobo Montarroio Flour Dutschke
– Pedro Moreira de Almeida Queiroz de Barros
– Maria Ruiz de Velasco Caniño
– João Maria de Magalhães Barros de Mello Franco
– José Miguel Melo Abreu
– Lucília Pereira Sampaio
– Viriato Manuel de Assa Castel-Branco Sampaio
– Florbela da Cruz Level (CMVM)
– Manuel José Dias Freitas
– José Manuel Henriques Bernardo
− Fernando Manuel Miguel Henriques, (PwC),
– Fernando Manuel Oliveira Almeida Sousa de Vasconcelos
– João Carlos Miguel Alves
– Luís Miguel Gonçalves Rosado
– João Paulo Fernandes de Pinho Cardão
– Gonçalo Nuno Guerreiro Cadete
– Ana Rita Gomes Barosa
– João Carlos Pellón Parreira Rodrigues Pena
– Francisco Marques da Cruz Vieira da Cruz
– Andreia Alexandra Ribeiro Carvalho (CMVM)
– João Afonso Pereira Gomes da Silva
– José Corrêa Sampaio
– Rui Manuel Fernandes Pires Guerra
– Michel Josehph Easter Day
– Hélder Bataglia
– César Bento Nunes Brito (BES assistant)
– Carlos Manuel Mendes Fidalgo Moreira da Cruz
– Luís Miguel da Fonseca Pacheco de Melo
– Carlos Manuel Leite Ferreira
– Abraham Edgardo Ortega Morales
– Gustavo Alexandre Diniz Gomes Ferreira
– Rocio Beriozka Goitia Gomez
– Célia Maria Caixinhas Grosso
– Pedro Daniel Fernandes dos Santos
– Filipa Tavares Leal Gomes Coelho
– Ana Carlota de Campos Vaz leite Pinto de Melo
– Alexandre Manuel Ventura Santos Vasco
– Alexandra Maria da Silva Moniz Caldeira Baptista
– Pedro Guilherme Beauvillain de Brito e Cunha
– Miguel Maria Pitté Reis da Silveira Moreno
– António Manuel Palma Ramalho
– José da Conceição Guilherme
– Tomaz Guerra Neta
– Carlos Manuel Espírito Santo Beirão da Veiga
– Maria da Conceição Macedo Vieira Monteiro
An endless list of names was also set up as assistants in the process.
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