António Pedro Santos / Lusa
Luís Montenegro
Public Prosecution Service has already analyzed all complaints and complaints, Attorney General of the Republic will decide. Inquiry continues.
Or case Spinumviva It’s back in the news. The process around the company linked to the family of Luís Montenegro, which eventually originated the May legislative elections, it gained new contours.
According to, the prosecutor has already analyzed all complaints and all complaints, not only about spinumviva, but also to the construction of house in thorn and the origin of the money for the Prime Minister to have purchased two apartments in Lisbon.
During this analysis at the detail, prosecutors found that There are complaints with many details; That is, they will have come from people who even know the “backstage”.
Therefore, they defend a crime The Montenegro. They think that only then can the case be resolved.
The criminal investigation will have to be opened at the Supreme Court, probably suspected of any crimes of improper receipt of advantages and laundering of capital.
With a criminal investigation, the investigation reaches another level: bank and tax secrecy breaks, or searches to seize documents.
The idea is to see at detail os contract and the dates in which contracts were entered into for service to spinumviva to different companies – and check for conflict of interest in politics (with Luís Montenegro as leader of the PSD, or as Prime Minister).
Prosecutors also want to realize where the 715 thousand euros For the family of Luís Montenegro to pay (the ready) two apartments in Lisbon; Here they should enter bank secrecy breaks, only possible with a criminal survey.
There is no final decision on the criminal inquiry. Will be the Attorney General of the Republic, War amadeu, a decide If the inquiry moves, six months after the beginning of preventive investigation-which continues, while the prosecutor expects more documents, the Attorney General’s Office.
“Revolted”
Luís Montenegro was at a local campaign event in Albufeira when he was confronted by the news.
And showed his revolt: “I am completely quiet, although absolutely stunned and even disgusting with the content of the news, who come from someone linked to the process configure a situation that is a Pouca-green, Of a procedural, democratic disloyalty, which is intolerable and that I do not accept at all, ”commented the prime minister, in conversation with journalists.
Without being “intimidating” by these “Maneuvers”, The prime minister noted that the news was published three days after the end of the election campaign.
“I do not know what is the source of this news. I do not know where these maneuvers come from. What I can guarantee is that all the clarifications that have been requested to me are provided, and I will await your analysis and the prosecutor’s judgment. The rest is simply a little beggar, I will repeat: it is a little green,” he said.
