The text is being presented by the rapporteur, Pedro Saraiva (PSD), on Thursday.


Apart from the “probable” knowledge of Salgado about hiding the accounts of ESI, the GES holding, José Castella, the group’s financial controller was also aware of the situation, but to a lesser amount that Salgado, the rapporteur said.


The final text has to be presented by 29 April.


On 3 August 2014, the Bank of Portugal took over the reins of BES after it had presented net half-yearly losses of €3.6 billion and split the institution into a bad bank with all the toxic assets and liabilities (a vehicle which is still called BES, and where the shareholders are corralled) and a good bank, although it is only transitory, called Novo Banco.