In the prosecutor’s arguments to prove the complicity between Socrates and Ricardo Salgado are listening to three phone calls between the former banker and former prime minister, who were reproduced already in the afternoon session.
José Sócrates’s relationship with Ricardo Salgado was the strong theme of the judgment session of the where the former prime minister began to speak. After all were both friends? In a tone almost always confident, Socrates insisted that they were not and accused the prosecutor not to have any evidence, claiming that his defense will leave no stone on stone.
If, in fact, it could be filmed, as Socrates argued, this trial would sit the country on the couch and the ‘stock’ of popcorn, which usually accompanies great leaflets, would be exhausted.
From a finger in the judge, he was the president of the collective that Socrates warned when he interrupted him.
“Let me end, if I allow me I want to address the court the way I find it most convenient to my purposes“Said the former prime minister.
Right in the start, the main defendant of Operation Marques dictated the agenda. I wanted to start with Sonae’s Oops about Portugal Telecom.
The judge did not authorize and defined the rules: “There is one thing that you do not know is that we will not go into dialogue.”
But they came in several times. And some were shrill, causing reactions like this judge President:
“I am making this warning because the Lord will not continue with that tone. The court is respecting the defendant and the defendant has to respect the court.”
PT OPA dominated SESÃO OF THE MORNING
The PT Oop theme dominated the entire morning session. In 2007, Sonae, from Belmiro de Azevedo, wanted to take control of the powerful PortugalTelecomwhich had BES as the main shareholder. The idea did not please Ricardo Salgado, but also did not please the Prime Minister.
The OPA has ended up spoiled and the Public Prosecution Service understands that the government of Socrates, owner, on behalf of the state, of a privileged shareholder position in the PT caused lead to satisfy Ricardo Salgado.
Socrates exhibited an order from the then Secretary of State for Treasury, where it was claimed that the government would not take a position in the OPA.
In the prosecutor’s arguments to prove the complicity between Socrates and Ricardo Salgado are listening to three phone calls between the former banker and former prime minister, who were reproduced already in the afternoon session.
SIC exhibited these April, July and October 2014 ears, in a major report it made in 2020 on Operation Marques.
The listening coincide with a period in which Ricardo Salgado was already falling helpless.
At Tuesday’s session, the judge understood that these conversations are a sign of proximity between the two now defendantsbut on the way out of the Court Socrates mentioned that he did not have a next one with salty.
However, in the ears of October 2014 the former banker even invited the former government head to dinner at his home, an invitation that was accepted.
José Sócrates will continue the testimony this Wednesday.
