Game of thrones, Morumbi: ethics panel seeks council chief's suspension | OneFootball

São Paulo’s Ethics Committee recommended this Thursday (30) the 120-day suspension from the club of Olten Ayres de Abreu, president of the Deliberative Council.

The decision was made after a formal request for expulsion due to reckless management filed by president Harry Massis Júnior last week.

The guidance is for the body’s vice president, João Farias, to call an extraordinary meeting to submit the decision to the full council.

For the suspension to be made official, a favorable vote from two-thirds of the council members (170 votes) is required, in a procedure similar to the one that recently led to the expulsions of Douglas Schwartzmann and Mara Casares, both accused of involvement in the so-called Box Suite Scandal.

While the preventive suspension will be evaluated by the council members, the Committee continues to investigate the case in order to issue a final opinion on the expulsion requested by Massis.

THE CASE

The political war at São Paulo over the election dispute at the end of the year gained new chapters this Thursday (23), with president Harry Massis Júnior formally filing a request to expel Deliberative Council president Olten Ayres de Abreu Júnior from the club.

Massis’s allegation is reckless management, and the complaint will be analyzed by the body’s ethics committee, which is responsible for assessing whether there are grounds for punishment.

The central point of the document involves the handling of an opinion related to a quorum change for bylaw amendments, a matter that includes discussions about the possibility of implementing a SAF at the club.

According to the petition, Olten allegedly disrespected the bylaws by failing to forward to the Council an opinion from the legislative committee, which had taken a position against the review request made in December by then-president Júlio Casares.

The interpretation presented is that, regardless of its content, the document should have been formally submitted to the council members, which did not happen.

At the end of last month, Olten had announced the creation of a new committee tasked with discussing proposals to amend the bylaws, with a deadline set for May 15 for suggestions.

Speaking to the outlet, Olten challenged the initiative and attributed the request to internal disputes. “The opinion of the legislative committee had to be issued within thirty days and, right after the bylaw reform committee had been appointed and three months after the deadline had expired, an opinion was sent not about the content of the reform request, but broader content opposing any kind of reform. So then, because the opinion was submitted after the deadline, it was not accepted but returned to the committee. Then a new committee was appointed,” he said.

The disagreements between Massis and Olten date back to the vote on Casares’s impeachment in January and also involve the Council leader’s view that the São Paulo president did not help defend former allies. There is also a succession dispute, since Olten was said to have plans to run for president. To the portal Arquibancada Tricolor, the council leader said he will not be a candidate.

Things got to the point that Olten and his political group voted against some of Massis’s proposals in the Council, such as the 2025 financial statements, which were rejected by the body.

The peak of the clash between the two came in February, when Olten sent the Board of Administration an unconfirmed accusation against Massis involving his daughter and the resale of tickets for shows at Morumbi.

Olten’s move was even seen as an attempted coup, since if Massis is removed from office, he is the one who takes over the presidency.

However, on the same day as the Board of Administration meeting (a group made up of former presidents and notable members), a complaint emerged involving the son of a friend of Olten, who was selling access online to the Councilors’ box suite at São Paulo’s stadium for matches, even referring to Casares’s ally as “uncle” in an audio recording that was released.

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