João Rendeiro’s body is already in Portugal
O João Rendeiro’s body has already arrived in Portugal, CNN Portugal. According to the television station, the ex-banker’s body arrived in Lisbon at 6:15 am this Friday.
The body will be selected by Lisbon Airport 9 customs services and according to the following request, where it will be sent to the customs services family to a customs office at the request of the family.
It should be noted that it was reported yesterday that João Rendeiro’s family asked for a second autopsy to be carried out, as they suspected the involvement of third parties in his death.
Inês Montalvo, lawyer for Maria de Jesus Rendeiro, widow of the former banker, said that the family had no official information about the performance of the first autopsy or the results of it, carried out at the Pinetown morgue (Durban), so she considers that ” this will be the first autopsy.”
The lawyer also indicated that the prison had been held since 2021, where João Rendeiro had been held since December 2021, “was very violent” and as information that the former BPP “was death notice several times”. She argues that “as conditions of mode” in which a place of death of João Rendeiro took place, configured in Durban, “are likely” for one less suicide.
Just yesterday, Lucília Gago, Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) motivated that any request that reaches the Public Prosecutor’s Office for an autopsy in Portugal to be assessed by the ex-ban’s body.
It is recalled that João Rendeiro was found dead on May 13, in the cell where he was in the South African prison of Westville, in Durban. The autopsy would be performed four days later in South Africa.
The verdict of the South African authorities gave account of which the former banker would have committed suicide, although they were investigated to the circumstances of the death they had not yet completely.
The former Banco Privado Português (BPP) had been in preventive detention for six months in the previously informed prison, awaiting the trial of the extra process scheduled for Portugal – whose trial was set for June. A process that, remember, João Rendeiro was always opposed to.
The former banker was convicted in three separate cases with the only payment of the BPP, although they have become final.
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