Vieira unable to pay debts
Former Benfica president, Luís Filipe Vieira says he doesn’t have the money to pay his debts amounting to €160 million. The ex-football club mogul did so just two weeks before the court deadline [...]
RealFevr nets US$1.5 million
The Lisbon-based Portuguese startup RealFevr has bagged US$1.5 million (€1.2 million) from the sale of non-fungible token (NFT). RealFevr is composed of two dynamic components: the fantasy [...]
Benfica raises €35 million from bond issue
Benfica has managed to meet its financial needs by raising the €35 million it needed from a bond issue aimed at small savers, many of them club members and fans. It sold 1,887 bonds despite the [...]
Will tax payers foot bill for football boss’s losses?
The Portuguese tax payer may have to foot the bill for a €31 million debt to the public bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos taken out by former Benfica football boss Luís Filipe Vieira. The Public [...]
US entrepreneur’s bid for 25% of Benfica rejected
Benfica boss — it’s all over Luís Filipe Vieira, the Benfica boss at the centre of a multimillion euro fraud and tax evasion scandal, has finally officially resigned as president of the football [...]
Suspended Benfica boss bail set at €3 million
Luís Filipe Vieira who has temporarily suspended his mandate as president of Benfica Football Club until he clears his name from €100 million fraud and tax evasion charges has been placed under [...]
Benfica football boss arrested on charges of pocketing €2.5 million
The Portuguese football boss Luís Filipe Vieira, president of SAD Benfica, has been arrested and quizzed by police investigators over possibly creaming off €2.5 million in commissions as part of [...]
