Miguel A. Lopes / Lusa
Prime Minister Luís Montenegro
Process opened by the Porto Regional Council of the Bar Association about the family company of Luís Montenegro.
The Regional Council of the Port of the Bar Association (CRPOA) opened a process to ascertain the possible practice of illicit prosecution by the Prime Minister’s family company Luís Montenegro, This body informed Lusa today.
“A process of investigation of the illicit Attorney was opened,” CrPOA President Jorge Barros Mendes told Lusa. The news was advanced Monday by the newspaper.
According to the same responsible, the process was opened following a APPLICATION OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE LAWYERS (OA), based on communication which was issued by the company Spinumviva, from the family of Luís Montenegro.
“Now there will be investigation in the sense of realizing that acts were practiced by the company and what is the corporate purpose of the company to realize if they are effectively Lawyer’s own acts Or not and whether there was the practice of illicit prosecutor or not and who practiced them, ”said Jorge Barros Mendes.
The president of CRPOA said that acts of illicit prosecutor’s office may be at stake by the company itself or by people who worked in the company.
“Both when I know, at this moment, according to the statement that was issued, the company had a attorney working and a jurist And therefore, we have to realize that acts were practiced by whom, ”he explained.
Jorge Barros Mendes also mentioned that, in normal terms, this process should take about four months To be concluded, adding that if they come to the conclusion that acts of illicit Attorney’s Office has been committed, the case will be sent to the prosecutor.
“We will present criminal participation, like what we do in other processes, and the OA will be assistant,” he added.
Until 2024, the legal consultation could only be practiced by a lawyer or solicitorbut due to a change to the law of its own acts, which establishes the legal regime of acts of lawyers and solicitors, currently can be practiced by any jurist.
ECO stresses that, until April last year, there were legal acts implemented by the company that were apparently exclusive to lawyers at that time. And these acts could only be exercised by a law firm, not by a commercial society.
The crime of illicit prosecution presupposes the practice of acts proper to lawyers, defined by law, without legal qualification for the purpose of. According to the legal regime of lawyers and applicants, the crime is punished with a prison penalty up to one year or a fine of 120 days.
