Costa has already “exceeded” influencer (despite spies in the pen-drive found in São Bento)

Former Prime Minister declares that his involvement in the investigation that fell the government is closed. “It’s a matter that is already outdated.”

António Costa put a full stop In his involvement in Operation Influencer, which provoked in November 2023 the fall of the government he was leading until then.

In an interview with RTP, a few hours after the Public Prosecution Service announced the opening of a related to the operation, the current president of the European Council stated that his involvement in the influencer is “outdated.”

“It is a subject that is already outdated And here I am performing this task with all my best energy and dedication, ”said the former prime minister.

The new influence in the influencer comes from the Discovery of a Pen-Drive In the Vítor Escovés Office safe, former chief of staff of Costa.

The device contained hundreds of personal data of agents of security forces and information services, SIS, SIED, PJ and the Tax Authority, which led the prosecutor to open an investigation for Possible violation of state secrecy. In addition, there is suspected violation of tax secrecy.

António Costa says she didn’t know that this pen existed and that was stored in a safe in São Bento.

Costa’s lawyer, João Lima Cluny, assured what his client never informed about the existence of the pen drive or its content.

“Given the news today made public, it just wants to make it clear that it was at no time its constituent confronted with the existence of this alleged PEN or its content, unaware of absolutely what it is aboutTherefore no additional comment will do, ”Cluny told the newspaper.

Vitor Scarce was heard this Thursday By the Public Prosecution Service in the context of the inquiry for violation of state secrecy, confirmed official source of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR).

The national director of the Judicial Police, Luís Neves, said on Thursday that he will only make statements about the pen drive found in São Bento when he is called to Parliament, in a hearing required by the arrival.

The liberal initiative defends the hearing of several figures in Parliament on the case, including the former leader of the socialist executive, but their chiefs of the cabinet and those responsible for the organisms mentioned in the data contained in such a PEN.

At the moment, there is no accusation yet, with the MP still investigating the contours of this parallel of the influencer.