In searches in São Bento, in November 2023, the authorities found a pen With personal data from hundreds of secrets of the secrets, the Judicial Police and the Tax Authority.
The Public Prosecution Service opened a new investigation linked to Operation Influencer due to a pen drive found in São Bento. The news is advanced by Saturday magazine, which is said to be suspected of violation of state secrecy.
The magazine reveals that in searches in São Bento, in November 2023, the authorities found a pen With personal data from hundreds of secrets of the secrets, the Judicial Police and the Tax Authority.
A source linked to Victor Scarling ensures that Costa’s then chief of staff never opened Pen, nor did he know he was stored in the office.
This same source suggests that PEN will have arrived at the prime minister’s official residence when Francis André was Costa’s chief of staff.
Saturday questioned António Costa’s office in Brussels about whether the former prime minister knew about the existence of this pen. But it got no answer.
The operation that led to the fall of the government
Prime Minister António Costa resigned to the President of the Republic on November 7, 2023, because of a judicial investigation into the installation of a data center in Sines and Lithium and Hydrogen Business.
Os crime inquiries originated in the so -called Operation Influencer, that led to the fall of the previous government, andnvolnem o SINE Data Center, o Lithium Investment, o Hydrogen Project e , It was never constituted defendant.
At the time, the operation led to the detention of Victor Scario (António Costa’s chief of staff), Diogo Lacerda Machado (consultant and friend of António Costa), the administrators of the company Start Campus Afonso Salema and Rui Oliveira Neves, and the mayor From Sines, Nuno Mascarenhas, who were free after judicial interrogation.
There are also other defendants, including the now former infrastructure minister João Galamba, former president of the Portuguese Environment Agency, Nuno Lacasta, former PS’s speaker João Tiago Silveira and Start Campus.
The case is related to the project to build a data center in the industrial and logistics of Sines by Start Campus, energy production from hydrogen in Sines, and lithium exploration in the Vila Real district, in Montalegre and Boticas.
