Portugal’s Finance Minister has made a rare statement on the situation surrounding ripped off BES depositors, commenting the she deeply regrets the situation and has "enormous respect for these personal tragedies," but stressed that only the regulators and the courts can resolve the issue.
"I deeply regret the situation of people who feel deceived, who feel they have been wronged, who feel they have lost their savings, and there is a huge personal respect for these dramas, but it is a situation which, as we have said from the beginning, is up to the regulators to solve," said Maria Luís Albuquerque in response to questions from journalists during a trip to the Açores.