Pedro Nuno Santos confirmed this Thursday that the €55 million paid to former TAP private shareholder David Nieleman came from the public treasury and not from the airline as it was the result of negotiations that avoided a litigation. “The law firm that advised the government stated that the risk of litigation is that we are paying the amounts of the shareholder agreement at their nominal value (224 million euros),” the former governor said.
Pedro Nuno disagreed with what former director Diogo Lacerda Machado said at CPI, who argued that the exceptional conditions created by the pandemic could serve as an argument for the annulment of the shareholder agreement signed with the state when TAP was privatized in 2015. “What? I know that the lawyers hired by Parpública had a different understanding, and it is on this understanding that these negotiations are being conducted,” he said.
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Source: CM Jornal
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