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Prime Minister Luis Montenegro
Spinumviva clarified in a statement that companies included in Luís Montenegro’s income statement on Tuesday were only “punctual customers” between 2021 and 2023, before the current government was entry.
This Tuesday, Luís Montenegro delivered a new one.
The weekly indicated the seven new companies that first emerge in the document and to whom Montenegro will have provided services. They are: Itau, Sogenave, Portuguese Transportes, Beetsteel, iNetum portugal e GRUPEL SA.
This Thursday, Correio da Manhã and CNN Portugal has advanced that two of these companies (which already had relations with the state) got Contracts of millions of euros already during the government led by Luís Montenegro.
According to CNN to Itau and INTETUM significantly increased contracts with the state in the last year, and in contracts of this nature.
However, in a statement issued on Friday afternoon, intended to “avoid absurd and unfounded speculation”, signed by Hugo Montenegro (Son of Luís Montenegro), Spinumviva states that services provided to new companies were done before the current government took office.
“Punctual customers”
The Prime Minister’s family business indicated that in 2021 his customers were Portugalenses e Beetle (Consulting in the area of strategic and business management) and Inetum (in the area of adaptation to RGPD) – “All with reduced service values and their value”.
In 2022, “Itau and Sogenave, with services in the area of RGPD, of reduced value” and, in 2022 and 2023, “Grupel, with works started in a year and completed on the other”, also of “reduced value in the RGPD area”, he says.
As to RODRIGUES GROUPthe statement said that “it has been given public knowledge by itself” and that “the services were provided in 2021 and 2022”.
Spinumviva indicates that “the duration of services ranged from six to eighteen months and in none of these cases the values of services provided exceeded a monthly amount of more than 1,500 euros”.
“None of these companies are a customer of Spinumviva since the indicated dates”says the company, reiterating the information already advertised that “since 2023 permanent customers in the area of data protection represent more than 99% of the bill”.
With the statement, the company that was created by Luís Montenegro, but in the meantime to its two children intends to avoid speculationafter the controversy created with the addition to the income statement delivered to the transparency entity on Tuesday.
