[Trending News] The revelations of the most sought after fugitive by the Portuguese justice

The escape had cinematic contours. In the way of Steven Spielberg, the famous American director, Jeki Matos managed to saw, for seven months, the bars of cell 21 of Caxias, where he had been pre-tried for almost year and a half for strong suspicions of hundreds of millionaire and violent robberies to Casino players.

“Yes, most were Chinese, but none of this that was being accused, trafficking in various things, none of this is true, who knows me knows that I was not walking in this world,” says the fugitive, in an exclusive interview with SIC.

Manuela Santos, director of the National Judicial Police Counterterrorism Unit, guarantees to have identified several violent crimes committed by the criminal organization of which Jeki Matos was part.

“The victims were thrown to the ground, managed, gagged, tortured, forced to provide ATM codes under penalty of dying, they were traumatized.”

The Caxias Chain Escape Plan is to explain

How can you evade a high security chain? Who helped? Who bribed? What failed in terms of security?

Eight years later, the SIC Investigation discovered it to thousands of kilometers in a country with which Portugal does not maintain any extradition agreement, Israel.

The Portuguese authorities have already been refused twice the extradition requests.

“It is not possible to extradite a national from its own country. And therefore Israel does not extraditate because [Jeki Matos] He is an Israeli citizen and we, in this case, can do nothing, obviously only with the agreement of his own country where he is that it is possible to extradite someone, ”says Judge Conselheiro Celso Manata.

At the Director General of Prison Services, Celso Manata It admits that it has detected strong evidence of corruption.

“I have difficulty understanding how it was not found that the grid was being sawn because one of the mandatory procedures of the safety is to hit the windows with an iron bar (…) someone put the mountains inside, Obviously, because this type of saws do not exist within the EP and, from the outset, there is evidence here that there was the help. ”

The entire escape plan

In an exclusive interview with SIC, in Israel, Jeki Matos, the fugitive, reveals the entire escape plan. It admits to having bought help inside and out of prison.

“I paid about 60 thousand euros to prison guards (…) to get away (…), in prison, speaks louder the money, any prisoner who wanted to corrupt a guard, having money, can easily do so, It was my case too. I bought mobile phones, metal mountains, ink, cement, among other things. “

Luso-Israeli ensures that it has been discriminated against in jail because it is a Jewish. He also confirms that he paid “to prison guards to be able to put in the same cell two inmates who participated in the escape plan”, two Chileans, suspected of various luxury residence robberies and would be detained in Madrid on the same day where he caught flight to Telavive in Israel.

Reveals that bought the airfare on the escape dayhaving presented at the check-in at Barajas airport in Madrid, the Israeli passport that the Judiciary Police did not seize during the search operation in 2015.

“It was Portuguese and Israelite, in fact there were two names, that's how he managed to pass the airport, with the name Israelite,” says Celso Manata.

The fugitive most sought after by the Portuguese justice resides in Israel in a locality near Telavive where he met with the SIC reporting team.

“I'm a different person, I regret crimes”

“I have a normal life, I have been working in the same company for eight years. I reborn. I'm a different person, I regret the crimes I committed,” admits Jeki Matos.

Without fear of any extradition that considers “impossible” in the face of the State of Israel, or to be tried in the country for the crimes he practiced in Portugal, the Luso-Israeli admits that Assaults on “two hundred casino players” earned him more than “one million euros.”

SIC investigation reveals the entire escape plan, the accomplices, the sheets used as a rope to cross the wall, the makeshift hiding places within the cell itself; The strategy planned for about a year to be executed “on a fog Saturday” And the car bought at OLX to escape Caxias and follow to the Spanish capital.

The names of the two prison guards who will have collaborated on the escape plan were identified by Jeki Matos in this report, but SIC chose not to reveal them publicly.

“Without the help of the prison guards, it would have been impossible to escape … They knew on the escape plan,” he reveals.

“These gentlemen are not prison guards, they are individuals who wear a uniform because a prison guard who honors the uniform that wears no corruption schemes, says Frederico Morais, president of the National Union of the Prison Guard body.

Remember that “if we have a rotten apple in a fruit tree it will influence the other apples and will rot and if we can take these apples for us it is very important” the union leader stresses.

Frederico Morais admits to continuing to have rotting apples reports in the system, but promises to “constantly fight them”. The inquiry instituted, at the date, by the prison services was filed, It did not identify evidence of corruption, nor violations of any employee's functional duties.