Claudia Monteiro de Aguiar, Secretary of State for Fisheries.
The Secretary of State for Fisheries, Claudia Monteiro Aguiar, confirms that her husband remains a partner of the company Mobinteg, which faced almost 200 thousand euros in public tenders since this government took office.
The ruler’s husband has a 30% participation in Mobintegwhich is dedicated to consulting information systems, and to whom were assigned several services to public entities in recent months, after the current executive took office.
In the base portal, it is possible to verify that Mobinteg signed in April 2024, a contract in the amount of with the Nursing Orderin a procedure of “preview consultation”.
Within the same procedure, a contract with the Municipality of Carregal do Salfor the “acquisition of services for the creation of Augmented reality experience and guided virtual visit creation services ”as you can read on the base portal.
A “Previous Consultation” It is a procedure that allows public entities to invite a limited set of suppliers to present proposals, without the need to open a broad public tender. It is particularly used in situations where urgency, technical specificity, or contract value, justify a more direct and controlled approach.
Four direct adjustments in the last 9 months
Mobinteg also benefited from four “direct adjustments” with public entities between May 2024 and February 2025.
The “direct adjustment” is even more simplified than “prior consultation”, allowing the award of public works directly to a supplier, without the holding of an open public tender.
In this case, the company signed “” with the Municipality of Elvas (in the value of), to maintain and support an app, with the Sintra Parks (L), for the implementation of an app, with the CRPG – Professional Rehabilitation Center (), for the purchase of antivirus licenses, and with the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (), to develop a platform in the scope of mental health promotion at the institution.
Contracts may violate the law of incompatibilities
These public contracts of the company of the husband of the Secretary of State may constitute “an irregularity” in the context of the Legal regime of incompatibilities and impediments of the holders of political positions, as highlighted by the magazine.
This regulation determines that political officials cannot participate in public hiring processes, which applies to “spouses [de titulares de cargos públicos] what are not separated from people and goods”And that hold a participation greater than 10%.
The ruler confirms, in a note sent by her office to Saturday, that she is “married in Communion of acquired”And that the husband remains a partner of the company.
But ensures that this suspended your quotaand that the suspension allows you to return to the company’s social bodies automatically, as soon as your mandate is finished in the government.
Secretary of State does not see “any impediment”
Cláudia Monteiro Aguiar also assures that “The law was fulfilled” and that “there is no impediment, or incompatibility, since the suspension of social participation in question was timely.”
Saturday notices that it provides for this scenario, but lawyer Paulo Veiga Moura, expert in administrative law, refers to the publication that seems to him “a FIGURE METHED IN THIS [lei] to the trambolhões“Asking the molds of their practical applicability.
“In what molds it stands on stand-by (to return) a participation? What rights do this figure foresee? There are several questions that“, The lawyer highlights.
The vice president of the civic front and transparency specialist, João Paulo Batalha, also asks, in statements to Saturday, dividend distribution It’s suspended ”and” wherever it goes, “concluding that it looks more like” an alibi than a suspension. “
The office of the Secretary of State of Fisheries informed Saturday that, during the suspension, “There is no right to receive dividends related to the period in question, nor to participation in general assemblies of the company, including the possibility of deliberating on any matters of its competence ”.
In May last year, it was reported that the husband of the Secretary of State was in due to a business of the same company with the government of Madeirafor the creation of a technological application for tourism.
