Valentim dos Santos de Loureiro (born December 24, 1938 in Calde, Viseu

Viseu

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) is a Portuguese

Portugal

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 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

Portuguese Army

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. He was involved in the Apito Dourado

Apito Dourado

The Apito Dourado affair is a corruption sports scandal in Portuguese football that first arose in 2004. Portuguese Judiciary Police investigators named several football personalities as suspects of corrupting or attempting to corrupt referees, including Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, chairman of...

 corruption sports scandal.

He is mayor of Gondomar

Gondomar (Portugal)

Gondomar is a municipality located in the east of Portugal's Porto Metropolitan Area. The municipality has a population of 163,574. Gondomar's mayor is Valentim Loureiro.Gondomar is well known for its jewelry industry.-Demographics:-Cities and towns:...

 municipality in northern Portugal (elected as an independent, after his Social Democratic Party

Social Democratic Party (Portugal)

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 (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

João Loureiro

João Loureiro was the most successfull chairman of the history of Portuguese sports club Boavista FC from Porto, between 1997 and 2007, period in which Boavista was Champion of Portugal once , Vice-Champion twice, went three times to the Champions League, won the Cup and the Supercup of Portugal,...

 who managed the club from 1997 to 2007. He was also a consul

Consul

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 of Guinea-Bissau

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 in Porto

Porto

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, leader of the PSD party in the Porto district

Porto District

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, and chairman in Porto Metro

Porto Metro

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 state-owned mass transit company. Indeed, he is famous in Portugal for the multiplicity of offices he holds at any one time.

Valentim Loureiro briefly attended the Law School of the University of Coimbra before embracing a military career.

Apito Dourado scandal

Valentim Loureiro was investigated by the police and formally accused in the Apito Dourado

Apito Dourado

The Apito Dourado affair is a corruption sports scandal in Portuguese football that first arose in 2004. Portuguese Judiciary Police investigators named several football personalities as suspects of corrupting or attempting to corrupt referees, including Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, chairman of...

scandal. In July 2008 he was found guilty of abuse of power but not guilty of corruption and sentenced to three years, two months of suspended jail time.