Witness testimony of Michaela Walzuch
Date: 23 May 2007; Time: 10.55; Place PJ * Portimao 
Officer: Tavares da Almeida, IC 

To the matter at hand she said: 
— It being that much has not been said I wish to state that I understand perfectly written and spoken Portuguese, and equally, German. 
— As to my lineage: my mother was born in Faro and my father is a German citizen. My mother’s family is obviously my family, with whom I came to live in Portugal [and] was all resident in Faro, in a street in Olhao called Rua Reitor … 
— My father died in September 1987 in Germany and my mother died in March 1988 in Faro/Portugal. 
— As part of this action [the giving of this statement] I have read my previous declarations. They correspond to what I declared in the two days in which I was in the PJ police station. They [the PJ] have made further questions and intending to clarify the factual truth, I respond in the following way: 
— For about one year I was working in the Lagos office of the company REMAX, where I stopped working in November 2005. 
— During the year in which I worked there I made less than ten sales. The manner of payment is over [based on] the value of the properties, as follows: 
– the percentage charged by the agency to the client is 5% of the value of the sale. 
– of this amount 24% is paid for the ‘enlistment’ of the property [UK: a finder’s fee] and the same amount is paid to the person who made the sale. In this way, a person who enlisted and sold a property would earn 48 percent of the five percent of the [sale] value, that is 2,4% gross. 
— I earned nothing like the profits made by Remax. 
— I was already working there when Robert Murat ‘appeared’ and after we got to know each other we started to divide [share/split] the gains and losses of our professional activity. 
— In this way we decided to mount our own company to sell various services, from real estate, management up to renting. This in addition to other services we would sell, such as types of business card, visitor cards, etc. 
— After having left Remax I worked in Century 21 but there I never made any sale. 
— As to my way of life, it is true, after leaving Remax (where I was working after closing the mini market), that I had no fixed salary. 
— Consequently I lived at the expense of my husband Luis A., who was earning money from his professional activity that paid all the house expenses and the food eaten in the residence. That said, because I did his clothes [washing/ironing] and the housework, he gave me money for my personal expenses. 
— As already said, in Remax after Robert Murat started working there we began working together dividing all the amounts we earned. 
— The last amount we received from Remax was about a month before the events under investigation in this inquiry and, for that reason, the receipt [amount received] was going to be passed to me because Robert was in England. That was about one thousand Euro. 
— I met Mr Jorge S. after having, on a date I cannot remember precisely, bought some clothes for my daughter in his wife’s shop and there I left a card that alluded to the company I had formed – ROMIGEN. Some days later he contacted me saying that he would like to speak to me about the project [business]. 
— Already I had several meetings with him in several places from cafe to restaurants and lately at my suggestion at my house because we still have no business office. 
— It is true that this company is a project always deferred and already it is functioning for more than a year, but the people who contact us for the realisation [‘fulfilment’], for example, of the ‘situation’ are not the most sure / certain [real/authentic]. 
— That fact is not due to incompetence but is because they are not satisfied either with what is asked of them or with the terms. 
— The person who is identified in my diary as BART is the managing partner of a real estate agency “EA VILLAS” a person who received me after I responded to an advert, placed in an English paper for a finder and seller of property. I had several meetings with that man but later we could not reach an agreement on the manner of payment because I wanted a minimum salary with addition from percentages from sales. We did not agree because he would not pay a minimum salary; no payment for finding and payment of only 1,25% of total sale amount. 
— Even so I still had several meetings and BART gave me a possible sale for a Russian/eastern man who had bank credit of up to €600,000. 
— In that price range were several places and I understood he preferred terraced, three-bedroom, garden, pool, garage, etc. 
— I met with the client, accompanied by Bart because I had no car. We only met the one time, on the day before the public holiday. I remember that detail because I said that I could not go visiting because my child was not at school and I needed to be with her. 
— The client’s name was Oleg. 
— Yesterday Bart phoned me to say that Oleg had phoned him to say that he had been contacted by someone who had asked questions about me. I explained to Bart about my schedule with the police and maybe that was the reason for the contact. 
— As to the lunches and any, possible, misunderstanding about the location where I had eaten on days 2 and 3 [May], I can guarantee that on day 2 May I lunched at the ‘Bem Bom’ with Robert Murat, because it was the day after he arrived [from UK] and because it was that day we went to see a house, to buy. On day 3 we had agreed to meet Jorge Silva at the Lagos Marina and for that we left always in a hurry and stopped on the A22 and nibbled [snacked] at the M24 shop in the GALP service station of Lagos. 
— Still on my family I can clarify that my mother was a Jehovah’s Witness and therefore since a little girl I went to the congregations, whether in Germany or in Portugal, when we we came for holidays. 
— When we married Luis exercised the profession he has today, only then he was an employee. In mid-1998 he started working for himself and at the start I worked there with him. While he was doing the specific work I did the other that did not require technical competence, for example cleaning the steps or the suction. 
— One of his work places was in the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz and I also accompanied him there. In that place worked a couple whom I knew in the Lagos congregation, Teofilo and Marina Castelo. Sometimes I saw them with their children. 
— I know that there are other people of the same religion there, but I don’t know who they are. 
— Many of them, like me, attend the congregation of Lagos-Baia. However, there is another congregation in Lagos-North, a place that I do not customarily frequent. 
— For about 3 years I attended the assemblies but did not take part in the congregation only because I had betrayed my husband, which is not condoned by [consonant with] the biblical principles that I profess. 
— Also that caused Luis to stop going, even though he had never been a very active practitioner. 
— On 3 May 2007 I was at the meeting of my religion in Lagos-Baia which lasted from 20h30 to close to 22h30. I like to stay at the end of the assembly to talk with other people, but when I am accompanied by my daughter, as I was on that day, i have to leave because she has to go to bed early due to her classes the next day. 
— As for the event under investigation, up to today I have not heard [anyone] to say or comment on what or who it was. 
— The way I learned of the event was through a phone call from Robert Murat, about 09h00 on 4 May 2007. 
— He, Robert Murat, had learned that day through the English news channel that he was watching at home. 
Nothing more said. Read, ratifies and going to sign.