Outraged: Diego Fernandes accuses opposition leader over help to Olten | OneFootball

Businessman and would-be investor 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 head of the body, the target of the tricolors’ most beloved playboy was Tricolor’s opposition.

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

“No way a SAF with you! I sat at the table with you and your group at Paulistano. I remember how I was received by you; in fact, people from your group, when I asked for a confidential meeting, 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 declared.

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

THE CONTROVERSIAL VOTE

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

The razor-thin margin did not prevent the decision from sparking a negative reaction on social media, where fans reacted with heavy 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 voluntarily stepped aside on May 14, after an agreement with the Council’s vice president, João Farias Júnior, and the head 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 represent an acquittal. The case for reckless management is still underway in the ethics committee, which may recommend Olten’s expulsion from São Paulo’s membership rolls, the most severe internal punishment.

The Council will also have to consider a permanent suspension in the future, 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 proposal, originally presented by former president Júlio Casares in December, provided for a reduction in the qualified quorum for structural decisions, such as transforming the club into a SAF. The legislative committee issued an opinion against it in April, but before that, Olten had set up a new committee to deal with broader changes to the bylaws.

For Massis, the move represented a breach of the bylaws by reopening a matter that had already been rejected. The crisis accumulated 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 posts.

On May 7, the Civil Police opened an inquiry to investigate alleged false representation related to an opinion by the club’s Advisory Council, broadening 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 stalled 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.