Furious: Diego Fernandes attacks opposition leader over help to Olten | OneFootball

Businessman and potential investor candidate in São Paulo, Diego Fernandes, once again publicly showed his dissatisfaction with the club’s politics.

The day after the Deliberative Council vote that kept Olten Ayres de Abreu as president of the body, the target of the tricolors’ most beloved playboy was Tricolor’s opposition.

Fernandes, who had already made a post venting against the outcome of the vote, attacked one of the opposition’s leaders. In a video by Caio Forjaz explaining the reasons (see below), he lashed out strongly and made accusations against the group opposed to Julio Casares’s management.

“No way with you guys for SAF! I sat down at the table with you and your group at Paulistano. I remember how I was received by you, including people from your group who, when I asked for the meeting to be kept confidential, were the first to leak our meeting to Casares. Did you get your position?” he asked.

“You and your group of councilors are a disgrace to us São Paulo supporters,” he blasted.

The post was deleted by Fernandes, but in response to a post about the subject made by a blog, Forjaz replied. “I regret the opportunism,” he summed up.

THE CONTROVERSIAL VOTE

São Paulo’s Deliberative Council rejected, by 120 votes to 118, the extension for another four months of Olten Ayres de Abreu Júnior’s preventive suspension from the presidency of the body.

The razor-thin margin did not stop the decision from sparking a negative reaction on social media, where fans responded with harsh criticism of Olten, the Council, and the opposition, whose members were decisive in blocking the measure.

With the result, the executive returns to the position after nearly three weeks away.

Olten had stepped aside voluntarily on May 14, after an agreement with the Council’s vice president, João Farias Júnior, and the chairman of the ethics committee, Antônio Maria Patiño Zorz, to secure time to present his defense.

After analyzing the case, the committee recommended preventive suspension until the end of the investigation, but the proposal has now been overturned by the councilors.

The vote, however, does not mean acquittal. The reckless management case is still ongoing in the ethics committee, which may recommend Olten’s expulsion from São Paulo’s membership rolls, the harshest punishment provided for internally.

The Council should also later examine a definitive suspension, though no date has yet been set.

The complaint against Olten was filed in April by club president Harry Massis Júnior, based on an accusation of reckless management during the processing of a proposed statutory reform.

The project, originally presented by former president Júlio Casares in December, provided for a reduction in the qualified quorum for structural decisions, such as turning the club into a SAF. The legislative committee issued an unfavorable opinion in April, but before that, Olten had created a new committee to deal with broader changes to the bylaws.

For Massis, the move represented a statutory violation by reopening an issue that had already been rejected. The crisis gained new chapters throughout the proceedings. In the middle of the process, Olten even removed the members of the ethics committee who were conducting the investigation, but the decision was annulled by Farias, and the members returned to their positions.

On May 7, the Civil Police opened an investigation into alleged false representation linked to an opinion issued by the club’s Advisory Council, widening the scope of the investigations involving the executive.

It is still not clear what Olten’s next steps will be, but it is possible that his return will lead the legislative committee to resume work on the statutory reform, which has been halted by Massis since early May. It is also not known whether he will again attempt to remove the ethics committee.

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