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Fernando Sampaio de Souza e Silva’s Company Sold Fake Travel Packages

Outsider Tours, a company frowned upon by Flamengo fans, used fake logins and passwords to simulate ticket validation for the Libertadores final between Palmeiras and Flamengo in 2025. The owner of the business, Fernando Sampaio de Souza e Silva, is under arrest.

Thus, customers received access credentials to validate on the Conmebol website. However, the information belonged to someone else. The goal was to simulate the existence of the tickets and their respective authentication. As a result, many were left out of the final at Monumental de Núñez, in Lima.

Besides the Libertadores, what is the accusation?

Fernando Sampaio faces charges of fraud and over 600 other lawsuits in Brazil. This is because the best travel packages with tickets, advertised and sold by the company, were in fact fake.

Besides the Libertadores, what did the businessman and the firm do to Flamengo?

On the eve of the final between Flamengo and Athletico PR, in the Libertadores 2022, Flamengo fans began receiving messages about changes and cancellations to their flights. The reason given was an alleged eruption of a volcano near Quito, which led the Ecuadorian government to issue a yellow danger alert.

The suspect not only deceived the public but also tricked Flamengo itself. That’s because the Most Beloved even announced Outsider Tours as an official sponsor of the club, which, of course, did not last long.

How much financial damage did the accused cause?

The debts are piling up: a travel agency from Bahia is demanding R$ 5.9 million in court, and the São Paulo Civil Police are investigating a loss of R$ 1.2 million caused to a local firm. However, the details of the hundreds of lawsuits are still being evaluated.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.