São Paulo president backs ousting Mara Casares and Douglas Schwartzmann | OneFootball

The president of São Paulo, Harry Massis, said he supports the expulsion of Mara Casares and Douglas Schwartzmann from the institution’s membership rolls. The Ethics Committee of the Deliberative Council concluded its investigative report into the case involving the clandestine exploitation of a luxury box at Morumbis and filed a request for the pair’s expulsion.

“My vote will be in favor of expulsion. If the Ethics Committee recommended this decision, I have full confidence in the body’s investigation and believe it is what is best for the institution. Every day, we are working to change the future of São Paulo Futebol Clube, and this is another important step,” Massis said.

“Under my management, honesty and integrity are non-negotiable values, and I will fight at any cost to make the club more transparent and more respectful toward our fans,” he assured.

The report will now go to the Deliberative Council. A vote is expected to be called so the council members can decide on the matter. All the members of the oversight body — Antônio Maria Patiño Zorz, Felipe Nelli Soares, Luiz Augusto Lia Braga, Marcelo Felipe Nelli Soares, and Milton Jose Neves Junior — agreed with the request to expel the pair.

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Understand the case

Audio recordings between Douglas Schwartzmann, São Paulo’s deputy youth director, and Mara Casares, ex-wife of president Julio Casares and cultural and events director, revealed an illegal scheme to sell a luxury box for shows held at Morumbis.

After the case came to light at the beginning of the year, Schwartzmann and Mara took leave from their positions.

In the recording, revealed by ge, Schwartzmann admitted that he, Mara, and others made money from the scheme. He said that Mara Casares received a luxury box from superintendent Marcio Carlomagno and sold tickets for Colombian singer Shakira’s concert in February of this year.

Carlomagno was considered the right-hand man of Julio Casares, who resigned in January. He made that decision days after the club’s Deliberative Council approved impeachment proceedings.

The luxury box that prompted the leaked recording, at the center of a legal case, was 3A, in Morumbis’s east sector. In club documents, that space is listed as the “presidential room” and is located in front of president Julio Casares’s office.

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