Vitor Mendes became the ninth player to sign an agreement with the MP-GO (Prosecutor’s Office of Goiás). He should be sentenced to pay a fine with the sum of the amounts he received illegally, as well as other athletes. On Friday, the 16th, he will testify to the body and also sign the terms of the agreement.
Involved in the fraudulent match-fixing scheme in football, Vitor Mendes confessed his participation and is collaborating with the MP-GO. Therefore, the Atlético Mineiro defender who is loaned to Fluminense until the end of the year will help the investigations as a witness.
Vitor Mendes participated in the fraud last year, when he was in the service of Juventude in the Brazilian Championship. The defender appears in conversations with bettors indicating a close relationship with the group. In an audio sent by Bruno Lopez, appointed as the leader of the gang by the MP-GO, he goes so far as to say: “He is our player”.
Defender made himself available to ‘fix’ two more players for the handling scheme
The defender received values in two opportunities to take yellow cards and offered to take a third, but the punters decided not to use it. The athlete even promised to arrange two more players for the fraudulent scheme.
Since his name appeared in the investigations of the Maximum Penalty Operation, Vitor Mendes was removed by Fluminense, where he had been, even as a substitute, gaining space. This year, he played nine games and scored one goal.
