If the then-future private shareholders of TAP had hired the services of the company’s president, Fernando Pinto, when they were still trying to buy the operator in 2015, that would be “serious,” acknowledged the former economy minister. However, Pires de Lima asked the deputies to make sure that this happened before formulating the accusation and added that, from the consultation of the documents, namely those related to the governing bodies of Atlantic Gateway, the holding company created to acquire TAP in 2015, “did the opposite reading.”
For Pires de Lima, who this Wednesday joined the TAP investigative commission, hiring the services of the president of a company they intended to buy would be a breach of loyalty duties. “This suspicion is very serious, it was good that they were sure.” In response to the deputy of the Bloco de Esquerda, Pedro Filipe Soares, he stated that he was not aware that this was true. According to Pedro Filipe Soares, this prior association with future TAP shareholders will be included in the audit requested by TAP from EY on the legality of the bonuses, compensations and other benefits granted in the past to directors and former directors, although he admits that it may be a joke
“It would be a very serious lack of loyalty, I don’t want to believe it. Engineer Fernando Pinto introduced himself as a member of the Atlantic Gateway management and asked for his resignation because it was an unfortunate administrative error, but it could have happened, ”he said. At the time, he recalled, ANAC wanted Fernando Pinto to form part of AG’s management when the privatization was completed.
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Source: Observadora
