Mário Cruz / Lusa
Prosecutor Rosario Teixeira (E) and Judges Vítor Pinto (C) and Ivo Rosa (D).
At stake is a pen drive with names and other data from agents of SIS and SIED, the Judicial Police and and Tax Authority.
During the searches performed at the Vitor Scario Work Office, António Costa’s former Chief of Staff (the same searches they found in the office 75,000 euros in cash), a Pen-Drive list was on the list of articles.
Was “in a small transparent plastic bag, located in a safe Sito no Cabinet Do Search. ”
Now, the Public Prosecution Service has opened a new investigation to the object that, as advanced by the magazine, can constitute an eventual Crime of violation of state secrecy. The decision was made in December.
This is because, in the pen-drive, there were names and other data from hundreds of SIS agents
(Security Information Service) and SIED (Defense Information Service), Spies and inspectors of the Judicial Police and Tax Authority.
At the time of searching, in November 2023, that the lawyer of Vitor Scrária, André Matias de Almeida, had assured that the content of the storage device was “excluded from the search warrant”, and a source close to the former chief of staff warrant that this never opened its content.
Tiago Rodrigues Bastos, another lawyer, ensures that his client “was never questioned” about the Pen-Drive content.
However, these allegations of nothing served with Rosario Teixeira, the attorney who accompanied the operation.
