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Bar Association begins a investigation to identify if there was an illegal prosecution. It is the arrival of the Prime Minister’s controversy to the court field.
The Spinumviva controversy now comes to court: the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) is analyzing an anonymous complaint related to Luís Montenegro and the Prime Minister’s family company.
In response to Lusa, about whether there is any inquiry related to Luís Montenegro and Spinumviva-a company that the Prime Minister created with his wife and children-the prosecutor confirmed “A Anonymous denunciation receptionwhich is em analysis“Although without specifying the evidence that may be under assessment.
Following the analysis of the anonymous complaint, the prosecutor will decide whether to open an inquiry or if the complaint will be filed.
ORDER OF LAWYERS OPEN INQUIRY
“If there is evidence of the crime of illicit Attorney, CWe will omin the facts to the Public Prosecution Servicewho can investigate ”. Thus communicates to Fernanda de Almeida Pinheiro, a president of the Bar Association, who ordered the President of the Porto Regional Council to take an inquiry to the Montenegro family company.
The chairman of the board, Jorge Barros Mendes, will now appoint “an instructor hired to lead the inquiry” to Spinumviva, a company that Luís Montenegro.
The crime that is investigated, the illegal prosecutionis punished with a fine or prison sentence up to one year.
Rogério Alves, former president of the Bar Association, comments on the case: “I do not know whether or not there was an unlawful prosecution because I do not know that acts were practiced,” he says, but “whether, for example, consulting on personal data protection is about building a database, there is no illicit attorney.”
“But if it is about the legal consequences of complying with the rules, then that is a legal consultationand according to the law that was in force until the end of 2023, a crime of illicit Attorney’s Office, ”he adds.
Spinumviva describes itself as a company that provides “management, guidance and operational assistance consultancy to companies or organisms (includes very different stories” such as “human resources management, safety and hygiene at work, marketing objectives and policies, event organization, personal data protection”.
Montenegro that “never gave in to any particular interest in the public and general interest and thus will continue to be.” He added, “I didn’t practice any crime, nor did I make any technical error.”
