Francisco J. Marquez, Julio Magalhães and Diogo Faria, the defendants in the case of the disclosure of the Nfica emails, are already on the premises of justice, in Parque das Naches, for the first session of the trial.
Arriving at the courtroom, Julio Magalhães, director of Porto Canal at the time, said he had a clear conscience and assured that he would make statements in court, having remained silent thus far.
Director of Communications at Club Porto, Francisco J. Marquez, Julio Magalhães and commentator Diogo Faria, are accused of offenses of breach of correspondence and offenses against a legal person, in the context of the so-called Benfica e-mail case.
Francisco J. Marks is charged with six offenses relating to the violation of correspondence or telecommunications, three of which are aggravated, one offense of unjustified access, five offenses against an aggravated legal person, and one aggravated criminal offense against a legal person.
Diogo Faria in the offense of violating correspondence or telecommunications, the offense of unjustified access and the offense of offending a collective aggravated person.
Julio Magalhães, in turn, reported three offenses of violation of correspondence or communication and five offenses of aggravated offenses against a legal person.
The first session of the trial ended without statements by the three defendants.
The next session was scheduled for the morning of October 3, when the two assistants of the operation, the former president of Benfica, Luis Felipe Vieira and Carlos Dios Pereira, would be heard. That day, in the afternoon, the prosecution’s first witnesses will be heard. The three defendants requested to be excused from the following hearings because they had harmed their professional activity in Porto, a request which was granted by the judge.
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