Thursday, January 19, 2017

Santos Ferreira says unaware of political pressure for the appointment News Journal

The former president of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Carlos Jorge Santos Ferreira, assured this Thursday, unaware of any political pressure that it was chosen to lead the General Box of Deposits, a position he assumed at the invitation of fernando Teixeira dos Santos.

“I Never spoke with the prime minister before being invited by professor fernando Teixeira dos Santos. Therefore, I know not,” said the manager in the parliament, after he asked about whether had knowledge of the existence of political pressures to, on the part of the then prime minister, José Socrates, for that would be the person chosen to replace the management team led by Vítor Martins.

Santos Ferreira spoke during his hearing in the parliamentary commission of inquiry to the CGD, two weeks after mr Luís Campos e Cunha, who was the minister of Finance of the government Socrates during only four months, reported to the deputies of the pressures that would have been the part of Socrates to fend off the administration of the public bank run by Vítor Martins and appoint a new team led by Santos Ferreira.

At the time, the former prime minister denied the charges of the Fields and the Wedge and, a week later, in the context of the commission of inquiry, Teixeira dos Santos also dismissed this hypothesis have been pressed by the prime minister of then, assuming the decision to replace the management team of state bank.

“I talked with mr. Fields and Wedge” on the public bank, underlined Santos Ferreira, saying that they have just received a phone call from the predecessor of Teixeira dos Santos, when he was abroad, during which there was not “a single reference to the CGD”.

And he added: “he Asked me if I was in Portugal and I said no. I was in Bangkok, on the way to Macau, and I told him that I would return within two or three weeks.”

when Asked if thought had the necessary experience for the position to which he was invited, Santos Ferreira found that yes.

“it Is important that you know the business and have experience of life. Not going to talk about my resume. Yes, I thought I had the qualifications needed to exercise these functions, but would not have accepted”, underlined.

Before you go to the state-owned bank, Santos Ferreira was an administrator of the Global Trust.

“we had a follow-up very closely with the banking entities that were in the group. Furthermore, there was a non-executive director of a bank in Macau,” said Santos Ferreira, confirming that this bank was linked to businessman Stanley Ho.

As to the reasons why he was invited to assume the presidency of the CGD, Santos Ferreira said desconhecê them, noting that their concern was to ask what they expected of him.

“In my school, no wonder the shareholders of the why you do things. I asked yes to Teixeira dos Santos, what he expected of me. I never thought to ask her why I had chosen”, launched.

“I Never spoke with the prime minister before being invited by professor fernando Teixeira dos Santos. Therefore, I know not,” said the manager in the parliament, after he asked about whether had knowledge of the existence of political pressures to, on the part of the then prime minister, José Socrates, for that would be the person chosen to replace the management team led by Vítor Martins.

Santos Ferreira spoke during his hearing in the parliamentary commission of inquiry to the CGD, two weeks after mr Luís Campos e Cunha, who was the minister of Finance of the government Socrates during only four months, reported to the deputies of the pressures that would have been the part of Socrates to fend off the administration of the public bank run by Vítor Martins and appoint a new team led by Santos Ferreira.

At the time, the former prime minister denied the charges of the Fields and the Wedge and, a week later, in the context of the commission of inquiry, Teixeira dos Santos also dismissed this hypothesis have been pressed by the prime minister of then, assuming the decision to replace the management team of state bank.

“I talked with mr. Fields and Wedge” on the public bank, underlined Santos Ferreira, saying that they have just received a phone call from the predecessor of Teixeira dos Santos, when he was abroad, during which there was not “a single reference to the CGD”.

And he added: “he Asked me if I was in Portugal and I said no. I was in Bangkok, on the way to Macau, and I told him that I would return within two or three weeks.”

when Asked if thought had the necessary experience for the position to which he was invited, Santos Ferreira found that yes.

“it Is important that you know the business and have experience of life. Not going to talk about my resume. Yes, I thought I had the qualifications needed to exercise these functions, but would not have accepted”, underlined.

Before you go to the state-owned bank, Santos Ferreira was an administrator of the Global Trust.

“we had a follow-up very closely with the banking entities that were in the group. Furthermore, there was a non-executive director of a bank in Macau,” said Santos Ferreira, confirming that this bank was linked to businessman Stanley Ho.

As to the reasons why he was invited to assume the presidency of the CGD, Santos Ferreira said desconhecê them, noting that their concern was to ask what they expected of him.

“In my school, no wonder the shareholders of the why you do things. I asked yes to Teixeira dos Santos, what he expected of me. I never thought to ask her why I had chosen”, launched.

“what the minister told me was the following: I wanted to CGD to encourage the credit to the companies, the internationalisation of Portuguese companies, and that this was done with efficiency and looking carefully for the ‘cost-to-income’,” he added.

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