Arrest warrant issued for Guinea-Bissau football federation president

An arrest warrant has been issued for Carlos Alberto Teixeira, president of the Guinea-Bissau Football Federation (FFGB), following a judicial investigation lasting more than two and a half months.

Teixeira is facing serious financial and criminal allegations, including the alleged misappropriation of public funds, forgery and the use of forged documents.

The development places the head of Guinea-Bissau football at the centre of a major legal case. Authorities formally confirmed that a warrant had been issued after the investigation reached the stage of seeking his arrest.

According to journalist Romain Molina, Teixeira was allegedly warned in advance that his arrest was imminent by a high-ranking political figure. The information is said to have reached him before law-enforcement officers arrived to detain him.

That warning enabled Teixeira to leave before the authorities could take him into custody. As a result, he avoided being placed in detention and remains at large.

The national police have now launched a broad operation to find and arrest the FFGB president. Officers are fully engaged in the search for the football administrator, who is wanted in connection with the allegations under investigation.

The case concerns accusations of financial and criminal wrongdoing, with public funds, falsified documents and the alleged use of such documents all included among the matters being pursued by the justice system.

No further details about the alleged sums involved or the specific documents at the centre of the case have been provided in the information available. The authorities’ immediate priority is to locate Teixeira and bring him before the relevant legal institutions.

Teixeira’s position as president of the FFGB means the investigation involves the head of Guinea-Bissau’s national football governing body. However, the available information does not indicate whether any decision has been taken about the federation’s day-to-day management while the search continues.

The warrant follows the conclusion of more than two months of judicial inquiries. Those proceedings have now moved into an enforcement phase, with police attempting to apprehend the federation president after he reportedly escaped ahead of the planned intervention.

The allegations remain matters for the legal process. The current action by the authorities is based on the accusations of misappropriation of public funds, forgery and the use of forged documents outlined in the investigation.