Madeleine's Fund has paid some of the costs the McCanns were ordered to pay by the courts. It's paid Duarte's fees also. Whether everything has been paid we don't know. Those they sued had to pay court costs and lawyers during the process, but hopefully they have been reimbursed by now.
The repeated reference to compensation payable to Amaral by the Sun is puzzling, as no court judgement has been released mentioning that. It's only a guess on my part but I wonder if it's connected to the fact that a freezing injunction taken out by the McCanns stopped Amaral from accessing his money for years. Perhaps he has the right to be compensated for that.
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- Madeleine's Fund has paid some of the costs the McCanns were ordered to pay by the courts.
- It's paid Duarte's fees also.
The McCanns had absolutely nothing to do with the financial mess Amaral had got himself into, he managed all of that perfectly well by himself.
SnipKate and Gerald McCann respond to Goncalo Amaral, 28 February 2012 Jornal da Regiao - Oeiras
Goncalo Amaral got rich at the expense of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, and it is known today that the profits derived from spreading, via all open and available media to the ex-inspector coordinator of the case investigation, were, within only one year, at least and demonstrably, in the order of €342,111.86.
From the cautionary injunction ordered by the 1st Civil Court of Lisbon, Goncalo Amaral's moiety was frozen in the
single share he held in his single-name society,
not preventing him from continuing to work nor preventing the referred gentleman from continuing to write or engage in other tasks that he sees fit, as a citizen, even with a tainted criminal record.
However, no apprehension was made of goods or financial values, which were held by that society.
This society, in no year since it was established in 2008, has ever presented, even, its public accounts, contrary to what it should have done.
From the amounts received from copyright, above mentioned and related with the publication of the book "The Truth of The Lie" and with the aired TVI documentary and the DVD sold with the newspaper "Correio da Manha", and other activities engaged in by ex-inspector Goncalo Amaral, as well as the rights of at least six editions of the book in foreign languages,
no amount was seized.
With regards to the villa that Goncalo Amaral had in Urbanizacao Cerro Azul, in Quelfes,
there aren't any losses to the referred interviewee that are to be attributable to the parents of Madeleine McCann. In fact, in 2009, there were several mortgages pending on this house as well as a registered asset freezing originating from a lawsuit brought by a brother of Goncalo Amaral against him and his wife, for, demonstrably, as stated in the sentence pronounced by the 2nd Civil Court of Family and Minors Court of the District of Seixal, having sold a house to a third party, after having received the amount they should receive for it, from the mentioned brother, who had helped them pay previous debts. The parents of Madeleine McCann got to know about such action after their intervention in this was raised by the enforcement agent in charge, a person who also seems to have some important information about what is explained above.
About this house there were pending asset freezings originated by the tax authorities, as the interviewee in question, despite being a civil servant, had tax problems, long before the publication of the book and of the documentary. Currently this house is owned by Banco Espirito Santo, one of the creditors, with visible credit problems with the referred interviewee, long before the publication of the book, and, therefore, the actions brought by the respondents.About the "Jaguar" vehicle with licence plate 28-FB-58, which at the date of the process was owned by the single-name society mentioned, was, on January 21, 2010 sold to a third party and on whose name it is currently registered,
so that neither the parents of Madeleine McCann nor any of the several other creditors had the possibility to use it to cover the various debts incurred by the referred, repeating, long before the book's publication.
As for the pension that the former inspector receives, in the amount of € 2,039.16, it's being deducted from it a percentage of less than 0.1% of the known values received by the ex-inspector for the book and documentary, which he delivered finished to his publishers even before the criminal process, which was under judicial secrecy, had been archived, thus disrespecting the ex-inspector, in this as in other aspects, duties incumbent to him, even in the situation of retirement.
Moreover, on this pension, there has previously been executed a seizure, originated in a process by the Finance Services of Olhao, for tax debts.
