The Public Ministry of Porto opened a second investigation related to the house of the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, in Espinho, this time due to suspicions of tax fraud associated with alleged discrepancies between the cost of construction and the invoices issued.
Porto’s Public Prosecutor’s Office opened a new investigation to investigate an alleged discrepancy between the cost of Prime Minister Luís Montenegro’s house in Espinho and the invoices issued by the contractors, reported on Thursday the
O heard in January Rui Mota Oliveirathe engineer who built Luís Montenegro’s six-story house in Espinho, and José Marco da Cunha Rodrigues, the construction company who, before that, demolished the ruin there, reports the newspaper, who was unable to obtain statements from the businessmen.
The Prime Minister, did not respond in time for the publication to close about whether he is aware of the case and whether he has already been contacted to be heard, says Expresso.
Archived at the end of 2024
The first criminal investigation into Luís Montenegro’s home was archived December 2024 and had as its object suspicions that the leader of the PSD had obtained undue tax benefitsdue to the fact that the work was classified as urban renovation, which gave it the right to discounts on ICMS and IPTU.
At the end of a year of research, DIAP Regional do Porto concluded that the benefits had been legitimately attributedrecalled Expresso.
The inquiry opened in 2025 is now “looking from another angle: the construction of the property itself”you can read in the newspaper, which recalls in its news that Luís Montenegro, when he was leader of the opposition, gave a press conference where he assured that all documentation would be “delivered when requested”in reaction to the opening of the first investigation.
The weekly writes that when it was contacted by Luís Montenegro did not make all the documentation available and later explained to the newspaper that “he didn’t hand it over because they didn’t ask him to.” According to Expresso, These payments are the target of the new investigation.
