Valentim Loureiro

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Valentim dos Santos de Loureiro (born December 24, 1938 in Calde, Viseu) is a Portuguese politician, and former football chairman of Boavista F.C. and Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional. He has the rank of Major of the Portuguese Army.

He is mayor of Gondomar municipality in northern Portugal (elected as an independent, after his Social Democratic Party (PSD) withdrew its support due to ongoing legal suits against him), former President of the Portuguese Football League, former chairman of Boavista F.C., and father of his successor, João Loureiro who managed the club from 1997 to 2007. He was also a consul of Guinea-Bissau in Porto, leader of the PSD party in the Porto district, and chairman in Porto Metro state-owned mass transit company. Indeed, he is famous in Portugal for the multiplicity of offices he holds at any one time.

[edit] Apito Dourado scandal

Valentim Loureiro was investigated by police and formally accused in the Apito Dourado scandal.^[1]^[2] After Loureiro and other suspects were investigated by police with phone taps, most of those targeted by the investigation have chosen to question the legality of the police's phone taps, rather than deny or somehow justify their (often incriminatory) contents.