José Guilherme, the businessman famous for giving Ricardo Salgado a ‘gift’ of €14 million, said he lost €25 million when the Bank of Portugal divided Banco Espírito Santo into good bank/bad bank and could still "lose a lot more."
In February, the humble builder was called to the committee of inquiry looking into the BES collapse so he could some clarification about allegations that he sent a €14 million present to his friend Ricardo Salgado, the former president of BES, but claimed he could not travel due to poor health as rather conveniently he was living in Angola, but he could write down his answers.