Luis Bernardo, executive administrator of the communications consultancy WLP, said this Monday in the Bolhan court in Porto that the Impresa group, which owns SIC, has a debt of more than 150 million euros.
Speaking as a witness for the prosecution in a lawsuit in which Ana Gómez is responsible for defaming Mário Ferreira through a publication on the social network Twitter (today “X”) in 2021, he mentioned that the company he manages provides media services. Capital Group (owner of TVI), whose chairman of the board of directors is Mario Ferreira.
“In Media Capital, despite everything, the situation is more or less stable. For example, the group where Dr. Ana Gómez comments has a debt of more than 150 million euros,” he said, commenting on the explanations he gave after publication. Ana Gomez’s tweet saying that “there are always double standards.”
The consultant, who was an adviser to José Socrates and worked in communications at Benfica and Sporting, mentioned a “black campaign” against Mario Ferreira based on “personal attacks.” “Dr. Ana Gómez has a case that is at her home in Sintra and she speaks weekly at SIC Notícias. She never spoke about this incident. “The person who has the rationality to prevent a difficult topic from being discussed on a weekly program is the same person who, when he tweets or makes an accusation, knows exactly what he is doing,” he told the court.
Earlier this year, Luis Bernardo was accused of alleged connections with Paulo Lima de Carvalho, administrator of the Global Media group (owner of JN, DN, TSF and O Jogo). The public relations consultant categorically denied and criticized the allegations: “Their highly offensive nature will be the subject of civil and criminal actions in the appropriate courts in defense of my good name and reputation.”
Luis Bernardo was heard as a prosecution witness in the trial in which the former MEP is being tried for defaming Mario Ferreira through a “tweet” in which he referred to news of the businessman’s investment in an aviation company, saying he intended to “emulate” OMNI Aviação e Tecnologia, a company from which 500 kilograms of drugs were seized on a plane flying from Brazil.