“Strange” timing? Pedro Nuno explains purchase of houses and “will do the opposite” of Montenegro

“Those who do not fear do not escape,” threw the PS secretary-general shortly after the PGR confirms the opening of a preventive investigation in which the socialist is targeted. News have a year and a half, but complaints are “recent”.

In a reaction, a few hours later, the news that PGR opened a preventive investigation in which he is targeted, the PS leader promised Wednesday to publish all the documentation regarding the purchase of his two houses on the PS portal on Thursday and made available to be heard on this topic by the Public Prosecution Service.

“Who should not fear”said Pedro Nuno Santos in a reaction at the headquarters of the PS, in Lisbon, about the news that the prosecutor opened one about the purchase of two houses it has in Lisbon and Montemor-o-Novo.

“Who does not fear does not escape”

The socialist leader said he went with “surprise I knew from the press ”of this issue and said the coincidence and the moment of publicizing the news.

“It was with surprise that he learned of the opening of the opening of investigation based on anonymous complaints. Strange, like all Portuguese, the coincidence and moment of the news,” said the PS secretary general.

“I’ve always been available for scrutiny. When a politician avoids scrutiny at all costs, distrust increases. It’s not my case,” he said, ensuring that “Tomorrow, the documentation will be available on the website”And that I would like to be heard by the Public Prosecution Service as of Thursday.

According to the PS leader, “who should not fear” and “Who does not fear does not escape”. Pedro Nuno assured that he does not escape scrutiny and is available to him, unlike the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, who accused not to do so.

“I will not simulate, like Montenegro, that I deliver the documentation to do the opposite,” he said.

“I feel, being available for all clarifications, with authority to demand that Luís Montenegro clarify what did not clarify. It is not understood why it continues to resist revealing all customers ”

News have year and a half, but complaints are recent

The Public Prosecution Service (MP) opened a preventive investigation in which Pedro Nuno is sought, confirmed the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) on Wednesday afternoon. “Following the reception of complaints and in view of the collection of elements, the prosecutor determined the opening of preventive investigation,” said PGR official source, without further details about the case.

Amadeu Guerra’s press office also confirms that the complaints are “recent” – Although the news about the unknown origin of the funds used to purchase the properties concerned already was by the magazine Saturday In November 2023 – but it does not reveal if they were made before or after the lead of the confidence motion, which led to early elections, according to the.

At the time, he was a Attorney General Lucília Gagowhich did not order the opening of any inquiry or preventive inquiry.

The two houses

According to Saturday, Pedro Nuno Santos, at the time Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs, did not declare how he paid House in 740 thousand eurosin which I lived at the time of the news.

It was bought with the wife, Catarina Gâmboa, in 2018, confirmed on Wednesday Pedro Nuno, with a sign of 92,500 euros from two accounts, plus part of joint account. Another part will have been funded by a bank credit to 450,000 euros and the rest came to the wife’s ready.

“This credit was shot down with the price of selling my house from Praça das Flores,” he said.

Two months later, he was promoted to infrastructure minister and forced to submit a new statement – in which the debt was disappeared to the bank. Pedro Nuno would have to submit another statement to explain the disappearance of the debt, but, according to Saturday, this did not happen: “I did not know” That, when changing mandate, had to submit an updated statement to the Constitutional Court (TC), at the time the magazine itself:

“In 2018, we decided to look for a new permanent housing, having, simultaneously, began the steps to sell the housing identified in the 2015 Declaration. In 2018 I acquired, in copiparity with my wife, our current permanent housing in Lisbon, having contracted, for that purpose, a housing in the name of both, in the amount of 450 thousand euros and the ready payment was made by my wife. Formalized, however, the sale of the first permanent housing, was settled (for the amount that was still in force) the bank credit associated with this housing“Pedro Nuno clarified in November 2023.

The second House of Montemor-o-Novo, 570 thousand eurospurchased in February 2022, it will have been financed in part (455,050 euros) by CAIXA GERAL DE DEPOSITS CREDIT AND WITH SIGN PAID WITH THE WOMAN’S ACCOUNT.

“The House of Montemor-o-Novo bought for 570 thousand euros. It was paid a sign of 57 thousand euros of one account of my wife and the rest was paid as follows: 5 thousand euros of an account of my wife, 508 thousand of a joint account; of which 508, 456 thousand are the result of a loan that I am still paying,” said Pedro Nuno tonight.

“At the time I answered and issued response rights. I did not hide any account, revealed joint accounts, own, sales, purchase amounts, liabilities, housing credits, IMI calculations. Until the accounts of my eight -year -old son I revealed“, it ended.

AD “Don’t Align” in anonymous complaints

AD guarantees that “it will not contribute to the campaign to be marked” by the case of Pedro Nuno.

“We are the framework of democratic maturity of the country. We cannot blur from the essentials. We want to discuss what distinguishes Luís Montenegro from Pedro Nuno Santos, which distinguishes the two programs and teams,” said Miguel Pinto Luz.

“A AD It does not align or can compact a democracy hostage to anonymous complaintsof agendas – some more hidden others less – but which only serve the purpose of degrading the capital of democracy, feed the extremes and intolerances, ”he reinforces.

Preventive investigation “runs terms” in the Central Department of Investigation and Criminal Action (DCIAP), in which the most complex economic and financial crime is investigated.