“Great shame” for the PSD: “There are all” in Tutti-Frutti. PS councilor also falls

Sixty defendants, 463 crimes, councilors fall on both sides. Day was black for the PSD, which is “pushing” his second deputy accused in the process. Less bad it will be for the PS, with Medina and Lamb.

Social democrats will not forget so early on Tuesday afternoon.

The councilman of the Lisbon Chamber Ângelo Pereiraof the PSD, he requested the suspension of duties following his accusation in the Tutti-Frutti process, deducted this Tuesday by the Public Prosecution Service against a total of (49 individuals and 11 entities) and 463 crimes. In the case of Angelo, he traveled to China with a flight paid by two of the defendants of this process, when he was working in the Oeiras Chamber, from 2013 to 2017, according to the accusation.

The president of the Lisbon municipality, Carlos Coins, “immediately accepted” the councilman’s request, but also left the message: “I hope the other parties will follow the same example.” And so it happened.

On the morning of Wednesday, it was the turn of the socialist councilwoman Inês de Drummond Gomes Rencao to office after also accused of four crimes of prevarication. Nonetheless, it is “very quiet with the proceedings” says it has not done “nothing wrong” and that the imputations of the MP are based on “an assumption that constitutes an error”, according to a statement quoted by.

And after Luís Newton deputy mandate suspended Being one of the main defendants, the PSD has already sent the “tip” to Carlos Eduardo Reis.

“I believe that the immediate conditions for the exercise of the mandate are not gathered and I hope that Mr Carlos Eduardo Reis can also suspend his term,” said parliamentary leader Hugo Soares, who wanted to “praise Newton’s attitude”.

From mayors to deputies. Who are the main accused?

In short: the PSD, more than the others “has been a great shame” this Tuesday, considers Miguel Pinheiro on the radio: “are all there” in the deduction of the accusation. But who are these all?

These are people who “send together, electoral lists and who worked very closely with party leaders.” Presidents, councilors, and some who arrived in deputies.

At the national level, the Scandal plays in two PSD deputiesCarlos Eduardo Reis and Luís Newton. PSD deputy and businessman, Carlos Eduardo Reis is accused of 22 crimesincluding active corruption. Their companies will have guaranteed several contracts with parish councils in exchange for payment, including a monthly rental of a Mercedes, and the services provided by their firms were considered fictitious by the prosecutor.

These payments will have been made to Sérgio Azevedoformer PSD deputy and considered the main defendant. Faces 51 accusationsincluding corruption, prevarication and trafficking in influence. It will have set up a scheme in which mayors and entrepreneurs paid counterparts to secure public contracts. The Public Prosecution Service estimates that Azevedo received more than 123 thousand euros in illicit advantages.

In 2018, hundreds of telephone scoles committed Sérgio Azevedo, known as “The Chief”, within a scheme that, according to documents that TVI had access at the time, was intended to “dominate municipal structures, which allow suspects Get equity and non -heritage advantages at the expense of the public purse. ”

Deputy and president of the Parish Council of Estrela, Luís Newton It faces 10 accusations, five for passive corruption and five for prevarication. Will have hired services to benefit personal and party contacts. One case involves a gardening contract for 132,000 euros to a PSD -related company, which subcontracted another entity to perform the service for less than half of the value. Newton will also have received monetary counterparts and a trip funded by Huawei.

But there are many other examples. The President of the Parish Council of Arairo Fernando Braamcamp It is accused of 39 crimes of passive corruption. The prosecution indicates that it has entered into protocols with associations only to circumvent the rules of public hiring. The board will have paid more than 440 thousand euros to a social entity directed by a member of the PSD of Lisbon.

The President of the Santo António Parish Council Basque Morgado It is responsible for 27 crimes, of which 17 of passive corruption. It will have simulated contracts without services, resulting in an illicit reception of 15 thousand euros. The former board treasurer, Nuno Firmohe is also involved, having received 110,000 euros through an associated company.

The historic PSD leader, Rodrigo Gonçalvescurrently member of the National Party Council, is responsible for two crimes of passive corruption.

“The PSD always knew who they are, but no one has ever had the strength or courage to take their power. Is pretending to be very shocked, but there is no surprise, and This will leave a spot in the party And it is very well done, ”concludes the political commentator.

The “Government Spy” of Socrates and the former FC Porto Vice

The former advisor of José Sócrates, Rui Paulo Figueiredowho became known as “the spy of the government” in the case of alleged ears of the Cavaco, is responsible for a crime of aggravated passive corruption.

The former vice president of FC Porto and current socialist councilman of the Chamber of Gaia, José Guilherme Aguiarit is accused of a crime of passive corruption.

The president of the Penha de França Parish Council, ANA SOFIA OLIVEIRA DIAS responds for a crime of aggravated passive corruption.

Out of the prosecution was the one who is perhaps the most sounding name of the process triggered by an anonymous complaint, and who has started with an inquiry for almost 10 years: the former mayor of Lisbon, as well as the former minister Duarte Cordeiro.

O Public Prosecution Service asks for the loss of mandate to 13 mayors. “Defendants Sérgio Azevedo, Rodrigo Gonçalves, Vasco Morgado, Nuno Firmo, Luís Newton, Ângelo Pereira, Fernando Braamcamp, Ameetkumar Subhaschandra, Patrícia Brito Leitão, Rodolfo de Castro Pimenta, Ana Sofia Oliveira Dias, Inês de Drummond and José Guilherme Aguiar practiced them facts that they are accused in the exercise of municipal mandate, using their positions to satisfy private interests to the detriment of the public interest, in serious violation of the duties inherent in their functions of mayors“It reads in the accusation.

The Public Prosecution Service intends Recover for the state more than 580 thousand eurosresulting from the commitment of crimes imputed to 29 defendants accused in the case.