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PS leader was reported to be denounced by the same case before last year’s legislatures. Regional Diap will not have received this information before advancing to preventive investigation.
The channel reported this Thursday that, in 2024, a case with those who now involve Pedro Nuno Santos in a preventive investigation was Filed by the Regional Diap of Porto.
The newspaper also confirms that there was a complaint to one month of the 2024 legislative elections About the origin of financing for the purchase of the Lisbon House. Missing the current complaint was only the house of Montemor-o-Novo.
A judicial source confirmed that the information of the previous case, which was filed, would not have arrived at DCIAP magistrates, who opened the preventive investigation this week.
The office of the Attorney General Amadeu Guerra told the weekly that others “Recent complaints” They justified the opening of the new investigation, but according to the media the previous investigation contained the same facts about the same case (except for the second house).
It is recalled that preventive investigation, used in situations of economic crime and laundering of capital, serves to see if there are evidence that justifies the opening of a Inquiry, which did not happen in 2024 (Theoretically, this action is confidential). For now, the socialist leader has not even been suspected of any crime.
Pedro Nuno Santos already stated to the same newspaper that “I have nothing to oppose the lifting of bank secrecyif the judicial authorities thus understand it. ”The socialist has also published the documentation related to the purchase of properties on the PS campaign online page, and admitted that he had help from his father, businessman Américo Santos, to buy the houses.
