Portuguese membership Benfica being investigated for match fixing

Portuguese membership Benfica are being investigated for match fixing, based on experiences in Portugal, quoted by the Daily Mail. Benfica, who’re the present Primeira Liga leaders are being investigated attributable to hacked emails which have been accessed by prosecutors and pertains to a four-year interval between 2016 and 2020.

The investigation comes only a year-and-a-half after the membership’s president Luis Filipe Vieira was pressured to resign after getting arrested on tax evasion, aggravated fraud, forgery and cash laundering expenses.

Former Benfica, AC Milan and Portugal star Rui Costa, who grew to become the membership’s vice-president in 2020 however took over the president’s put up when Vieira resigned, can be concerned within the investigation, based on experiences.

As per the Daily Mail, the inquiry alleges that Benfica benefited from a sequence of fraudulent outcomes throughout that 2016-2020 timeframe.

“Taking into account the news made public today, Sport Lisboa e Benfica – Futebol SAD confirms that it appeared in court on January 3, as well as, among others, the members of the Board of Directors from 2016 to 2020 and who are currently in office,” a Benfica assertion learn, acknowledging the investigation.

“Benfica SAD will not comment further as the trial is under legal secrecy. Benfica expresses its total willingness to collaborate with the competent authorities, as has always happened up to now,” it added.