The Port Relation ordered the re-trial of the doping process of the extinct W52-FC Porto and the recasting of the judgment, because Nuno Ribeiro's statements made by reading a written text are illegal proof.
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25/09/2026
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Lusa
O judgment of the Court of Porto Relation (TRP), dated Thursday and to which the agency Lusa had access today, arises following the interlocutionary appeal brought by Adriano Quintanilha, owner of the team, and the Association Calvary Várzea Clube de Cycling – the club at the origin of the team – supporting being a means of illegal proof the testimony at trial hearing of the then sports director, Nuno Ribeiro, who read a previously prepared document.
“ It is unquestionable that the ‘declarations’ provided by the reading of a written text previously prepared in a manner and by an unknown person are inadmissible [in judgment] and cannot be valued as such [mean of proof],” the TRP stresses, adding that the court of first instance “not only admitted them but on the basis of them determined the production of other evidence and, in the end, valued them to give as a basis the decisive factuality of the criminal liability” of the defendants.
On December 12, 2025, Adriano Quintanilha and Nuno Ribeiro were sentenced to four years in prison for trafficking in prohibited substances and methods, and to one year and nine months for administration of prohibited substances and methods, with the collective of judges decided to apply to each, in legal cumulus, the single sentence of four years and nine months of effective imprisonment.