There were 39 of the games of the League have been investigated. The club that was under all suspected was the Boavista,
making reference to PJ in the interim report the 20 games involving directly or indirectly that club, which was suspected of viciação results. Of these, only one resulted in public criticism (Boavista / Estrela da Amadora, held on 3 April and the count to 29. First day of the season 2003/2004), whose phase of inquiry is currently being held in the Court of Criminal Procedure the Porto. It accused the president now retire Joao Loureiro, his father, at the time president of the League, and the referee Jacinto Passion.
In turn, the second club with a larger number of games where there were suspicions of viciação was the Union of Leiria. The PJ said that nine of the results of the meetings of the season 2003/2004 were handled and that the majority of tapping gave account that John Bartholomew supported the choice of arbitrators auxiliaries.
The FC Porto after emerging as the third club most "benefited". They were investigated seven games involving the blue and white and three of them resulted in accusations public. In all these cases, the leaders portistas requested the opening of instruction, challenging the objections of prosecutors. Pinto da Costa replied in the three situations for active sports corruption and one of the cases (referring to the Star of Amadora) is accompanied by his vice Reinaldo Teles.
Carolina Salgado then emerged as essential to sustain the reopening of two of the processes that, at the arrival of the team of Jose Maria Morgado had already been filed by DIAP of Porto. In cases involving other clubs nothing new justify the reopening, which forced the team of Jose Maria Morgado to comply with the archiving that had been made before being appointed.
The remaining clubs under suspicion were the Ocean, the Chelsea and the National, each with a meeting in research. Two of those cases resulted in prosecution public (Marítmo-National and National-Benfica), whereas in the latter case the MP argues that the benefit was also the FC Porto, for direct damage of its most direct rival, which lost in Madeira for 3 - 2.
Remember also that in all these games were intercepted phone tapping indicate that allowed the choices of the arbitrators, the tax line or the observers. The involved denied the suspicion that always seemed on them.
DERROTA OF SPORTING KEY
Days before the game Beira-Mar/FC Porto (0-0, April 18, 2004), Pinto da Costa received at home Augusto Duarte. The visit was videotaped by the Judicial Police who, later, received the testimony of Carolina Salgado guarantee that where there has been a supply of money in the meeting. The objective of the same, the researchers believe, was that the FC Porto were received in the game with Beira-Mar to occur this week-end. The defeat of Tottenham, a day before in the Bessa, ultimately irrelevant to the outcome of that meeting. The FC Porto drew level, and Pinto da Costa regretted, in a telephone conversation with Pinto de Sousa, that the arbitrator "Nor was wrong but did not cheirinho no, nothing." "I only left us some free passes, the gajo," said the president portista who later explained that the PJ Augusto Duarte was only "taking a coffee and talk about nothing." Augusto Duarte, in turn, never explained why it did.
MONETARY ADVANTAGES IN FIRST ESCALÃO
Belonging to 1. St step of football requires arbitrators to monetary benefits that can. Does the MP that in 2004 an arbitrator to 1. St category earned for each game of the League, 680 euros. In this value acresciam 33 cents per kilometer traveled; 18.75 euros per meal, 75 for compensation if the game occurring a day of the week and a monthly allowance of 300 euros per apitar the main step.