The Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) accused four directors of organizations at the Porto District Social Security Center for committing crimes of denial of justice and malfeasance, informed the Porto Regional Attorney General’s Office.
The four directors of organizations at the Porto District Social Security Center accused by the (MP) for committing crimes of denial of justice and malfeasance are no longer “in office”, informed an official source from the ministry.
“They are all former Social Security directors”, said this Saturday, an official source from the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security.
The same source added that none of the four suspects “constituted as defendants are in office”, providing no further details about those targeted by the MP’s accusation, particularly when they left their management positions.
In a note released on Friday by the Porto Regional Attorney General’s Office, on its website, it is stated that the four defendants all hold management positions in bodies of the Porto District Center of the Social Security Institute.
Facts date back to the period between 2014 and 2016
The facts date back to the period between 2014 and 2016 and are related to the entry into force of Decree-Law No. 33/2014, of March 4, which established a new sanctioning regime for social support establishments and clarified the subjection of with or without a cooperation agreement, to this sanctioning regime.
The prosecution order, dated December 30, 2024, states that the accused “decided to prevent the initiation of administrative proceedings against the IPSS covered” by this legislation.
In this sense, says the MP, the accused “gave express orders to their subordinate technicians/collaborators, not to report the infractions of which they were aware, through the registration of participation in the computerized system in use in Social Security (SISS- CO)” .
Due to the absence of such a record, the defendants managed to prevent the continuation of irregularities detected by those subordinate employees as administrative offense proceedings, according to the Prosecutor’s note.
