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Former Prime Minister José Sócrates
“There are consistent evidence that José Sócrates is the man of the Fund” and that “demonstrate that Carlos Santos Silva is the person appointed” for himself to move the money between 2011 and 2014 for his accounts.
The Central Court of Criminal Instruction (TCIC) ordered this Wednesday to go to the judgment of the former Prime Minister and the entrepreneur for Three Capital Bothing Crimes.
For the court, “there are consistent evidence that José Sócrates is the man of the Fund” and these evidence “demonstrates that Carlos Santos Silva is the person appointed by José Sócrates” to move the money between 2011 and 2014 for the accounts of the former Prime Minister.
Luís Ruivo / Lusa
The businessman Carlos Santos Silva
It is Process was separated from Operation Marquisand the judge of instruction understood that, since the crimes in question are committed in co -authorship with defendants who are in the main proceedings of the, it must be attached to the trial that has a scheduled start date to July 3.
Forgery crimes prescribed
In this process were also in question three crimes of document forgery, In co -authorship, the Court considered that “the maximum prescription period has already been held”, since these crimes occurred in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Regarding the crimes of capital bleaching, the alleged use by defendants, between 2011 and 2014, of bank accounts of a company controlled by Carlos Santos Silva, the wife of this and the driver of José Sócrates, to enter the sphere of the former prime minister with unlawful origin.
According to the prosecution of the MP, dated 2017, the businessman and friend of the former head of government (2005-2011) was one of the railways that José Sócrates resorted to hide amounts with which he will have been corrupted to benefit the Lena Group, the Espírito Santo group and the Vale do Lobo Group.
