Four years later, Flamengo still has not resolved all the pending issues in the case and has even been accused of erasing the evidence at the site of the fire.
This Monday, the 6th, the Flamengo became a subject due to the fire that occurred in the vulture’s nest in the year 2019. After hiring a specialized engineer to carry out an independent report on the fire, the club was accused of erasing evidence and tampering with the scene of the scene even during the performance of the police investigation.
The novelty in the case was revealed by “Uol Esporte”, which had access to documents and other data collected in the new report. According to the engineer Jose Augusto Bezerra, Flamengo ordered an employee to remove part of the problematic electrical installation to justify the fire. All this would have happened moments after the tragedy.
In an official note, Flamengo vehemently denied the accusation. According to what the club brought, the engineer leaked the information from the report carried out to harm the institution, as both are fighting in court in another case. According to what the contracted engineer reported, the attitude of tampering with the fire scene would have come from Reinaldo BelottiCEO of Rubro-Negro.
“After becoming aware of the untrue accusations made by Mr. José Augusto Lopes Bezerra in the sense that the CEO of Flamengo, Mr. Reinaldo Belotti allegedly ordered a person to tamper with some points at the scene of the fire, which occurred on February 8, 2019, we believe it is relevant to alert UOL that this is a slanderous allegation, made without any basis in evidence and facts, invented for being disaffected by the Club, which is being sued by Flamengo, in the civil and criminal spheres“, explained Flamengo in an official note.
It is worth remembering that the fire at Ninho do Urubu killed ten young players from Flamengo’s youth teams. The result of the expertise indicated a defect in the air conditioning and in the flammable material present on the walls of the containers. Regarding the alleged tampering with evidence, Bezerra told Uol. “It compromises the result of the police expertise. It is decisive“.
Source: sportbuzz
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