Tribunal Ends Attempts By Silva & Outgoing FPN Team To Delay His Dismissal In Integrity Dispute
Latest ruling is likely to lead to the reopening of a complaint against Silva placed on ice by the Aquatics Integrity Unit in January after attempts to further delay an order for the FPN to dismiss Silva were thrown out due to the "supervening futility of the dispute"
Antonio Silva is living out the last 10 days of his outgoing administration at the Portuguese Swimming Federation (FPN) as a lame-duck president stripped of his position and power after a tribunal ended further efforts to delay a Government order to dismiss him on integrity grounds.
In effect, one of Silva's avenues to 'clearing' his name, after the FPN was instructed to dismiss its president under Portuguese law governing sports administration, has come to a dead-end.
That is likely to lead to the reopening of a complaint against Silva lodged with the Aquatics Integrity Unit in January this year but placed on ice pending "new evidence".
Now the Integrity Unit has every reason to look again, the latest judicial judgment having confirmed that the complaints against Silva were neither spurious nor "settled", as some had suggested. Rather, the tribunal showed a degree of vexation in its judgment, noting the various attempts to further delay the dismissal order by the president and the FPN administration he led that is now entered its last week in power before elections this Saturday, November 16.
In this article:
- the details of the ruling that backed the IPDJ, the top sports authority in Portugal and the body that ordered Silva's dismissal, and brings to an end attempts to delay the IPDJ's instruction.
- the views of the whistleblower now vindicated
- What will International Swim Authorities and Integrity Units Do Now?
- The Choice Before Portuguese Delegates In A Two-Horse Race at FPN elections this Saturday: Continuity Vs Clean Slate
