The Criminal Center Court decided to measure more severe duress, detention pending trial for José Sócrates and the businessman Carlos Santos Silva, who was Lena group manager between March 2008 and October 2009, and the driver John leg. The lawyer Gonçalo Ferreira Trindade, Judge Carlos Alexandre determined the ban on contacts with the other defendants to be absent abroad, with the obligation to give the passport and to report weekly to the Central Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DCIAP) .
Main events:
Friday, November 21
The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) issues a statement in which confirms that José Sócrates and three other people were arrested on Friday night as part of a survey by the Central Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DCIAP) investigating “suspected of crimes of tax evasion, money laundering and corruption “.
The PGR confirmed an advanced news just before the online editions of the Sun and the Morning Post and explained that the detainees would be interrogated today by the investigation of the trial judge,” which investigates banking, movements and money transfers without known justification and legal means, “being” independent “of the Mont Blanc view, having not had even” from the same “.
Saturday, November 22
The mid-morning, Catarina Martins, coordinator of the Left Bloc party, which is meeting in Lisbon Convention, declined to comment on the arrest of Socrates, saying it is an investigation that is up to the judicial authorities: “In the policy, which is policy, justice that is justice, “he said.
Still in the morning, the Socialist candidate for prime minister, António Costa, sent a message to the militants of the PS, who elect these elections direct a new secretary-general, who asked them not to confuse the “personal solidarity and friendship” for José Sócrates with the political action of the party, stressing that “it is only justice lead, completely independent” process and “It is essential to preserve” the party in the assessment of this case.
Near noon, RTP revealed that suspended the review space that Socrates had on Sundays on Channel 1.
Around the same time, the former leader of the BE, Francisco Louçã at the entrance to the party convention, refused to make “hasty” judgments about the arrest of the former prime minister. Louçã admitted that this case “will have an effect on the whole country,” but cautioned that it takes “prudence”, that “there is only judged cases when they end” and that, for the political, “are of a different nature” and would only be evaluated later. Finally, it considered that Portugal needs a justice “better prepared” and “more resources” to fight “extremely complex processes” as “money laundering, corruption and crime of the banks.”
Vice President and PSD coordinator, Antony Costa, said, in the early afternoon, Maia, the party will not make “any political commentary” on the arrest of Jose Socrates for it is a “justice issue “adding that one should wait” serenely that judicial institutions to provide clarifications as are deemed appropriate in the light of unfolding events. “
At about 14:00, the PGR returned to issue a statement in which reveals the identity of the other three detainees, in this investigation:. businessman Carlos Santos Silva, the lawyer Gonçalo Ferreira Trinity and the driver John Leg
The PGR use, on the other hand, that the investigation originated “a bank communication” to DCIAP in law enforcement and prevention of money laundering repression. “
The leader of the CGTP, Armenian Carlos, on the sidelines of a march in Port defended may need to” wait that justice work quickly. “
On the sidelines of a rally in Albergaria-a-Velha, the secretary general of the PCP, Jerónimo de Sousa said he did not want to comment on the arrest of former Prime Minister, stating that there must be “the clearance of all truth, the operation of research and Justice and not rush judgments or convictions,” adding that “no one is above the law.”
At 16:30, the authorities investigating the case ended searches they were doing in Socrates’ residence in Lisbon, the former Prime Minister followed, told police source Lusa.
At 16:45, José Socrates came to Campus Justice in Lisbon, transported from his residence in a car uncharacteristic and emergency operation, to be presented to the judge Carlos Alexandre, the Central Court of Criminal Investigation, for the first judicial interrogation.
CDS-PP, a statement sent to Lusa by the deputy party chairman Nuno Magalhães, emphasizes respect the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary and therefore will not comment on “ongoing investigations in the judicial system.”
Also the former leader of the PSD Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, in Aveiro, in a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the party, sent a political and legal assessment of the arrest of former Prime Minister for your comment space on TVI on Sunday but said that in some cases, the “solidity of the facts” can justify such a decision. However, cautioned that “to understand the legal implications of this case,” you must “have the result of the interrogation and the judge’s decision, it might take more or less time.”
In the Guard, the margins Local Government Academy, sponsored by Mayors Social Democrats and the Institute Francisco Sá Carneiro, the Holy House of Mercy provider and also former Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes, considered on Saturday night that the arrest of the former prime minister José Socrates is a fact “sad to Portugal” and that raises questions about “the point that the state has come.”
The former prime minister made headline news detention in the international press, with theme featured, among others, the Spanish El Mundo and El País, the British Financial Times, Le Monde in the French or Brazilian O Globo.
By 22:20, José Sócrates have abandoned the Central Court of Criminal Investigation in Lisbon towards the Lisbon Metropolitan Command PSP, where he spent the second night in a row since his arrest. On leaving the court, his attorney, João Araújo, has not clarified whether it would have already started questioning the former prime minister.
Just before midnight, in his first speech to the socialist militants after Saturday have been elected as the new secretary general of the Socialist Party (PS), António Costa said the PS “is a party that does not adopt the bad Stalinist practice of photography elimination of this or that,” adding that the party ” assumes its entire history, the good and the bad times. ” He expressed solidarity with the arrested former prime minister, but declined to comment on the performance of the judicial authorities in the case.
Sunday, November 23
José Sócrates returned to TCIC by 8:35 to be questioned by the judge Carlos Alexandre.
Armenian Carlos, secretary general of the CGTP argued that “politicians are not all the same,” admitting that cases like that of José Sócrates may be a “discredit factor of politics.”
The Swiss pharmaceutical company Octapharma, for which the former prime minister works as a consultant for Latin America, said in a statement have been searching target in Thursday, November 20, at its facility in Portugal, of which not resulted in the arrest of any employee, as opposed to the initially advanced. At first, came to be wrongly reported that among those arrested was Lalanda Joaquim de Castro, representative of multinational pharmaceutical Octapharma. Octapharma came even willing to collaborate with the authorities.
Speaking to Lusa agency, bastonária of the Bar Association, Elina Fraga, admitted that the detention for questioning of Jose Socrates could be illegal, stressing the Criminal Procedure Code provides that in these cases detention may only occur “there is danger of leaks, flagrante delicto, danger of further criminal activity or there is a danger of some unrest in the community”.
Around 18:00, Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho in Aveiro, referred to the detention of Jose Socrates, saying it is a process that fits to justice and not political, admitting that what happened “was not a thing trivial “. Although not want to comment, at the insistence of journalists turned out to say that issues such as the arrest of former Prime Minister are not “moods”, stressing still not be commentator, but the Prime Minister and, as such, have a duty to “ensure that all institutions work under in which they must.”
José Socrates leaves the TCIC facilities around 21:45 towards the Lisbon Metropolitan Command, PSP, where he spends the third consecutive night. In the courthouse lawyer Joao Araujo said that the judicial interrogation of former Prime Minister would be taken up on Monday, by 09:15. Socrates’ lawyer also said that the questioning was “going very well” and that Socrates was “great” and a state of mind “strong”.
Monday 24 November
Around 10:00 lawyers of former Prime Minister Jose Socrates, and businessman Carlos Silva Santos reached the TCIC, where the former prime minister was expected to resume the interrogation by Judge Carlos Alexandre.
The outgoing president of the Socialist Party, Maria de Belém, refused the arrest of Socrates undermine the party and defended the separation between politics and justice. Jorge Lacão and Vieira da Silva, both former ministers of the socialist governments of Jose Socrates expressed their “saddened” and “dismayed” by the situation experienced by the former prime minister.
The European Commission declined to any comment to the arrest of former Prime Minister claiming that involves not “national procedures” that are not directly related to money or activities of the European Union.
The interrogation of José Sócrates was stopped around 12:30 for lunch and resumed at 14:30.
In an interview with RTP, the former attorney general’s office, Pinto Monteiro, defended being made “a political aproveitamente a case law “that” undermines the PS. ” Pinto Monteiro also stated that during lunch he had with the former prime minister, days before it is held, spoke only about books and the former Brazilian president Lula da Silva, ensuring that Socrates did not ask “anything about justice “and did not know that it followed a lawsuit against the former prime minister. Former prosecutor acknowledged that lunch turned out to be “a complicated coincidence” and “unpleasant”, had “sympathy” by Socrates and stressed that “as a free citizen” lunch with anyone.
The lawyer José Sócrates, João Araújo, provides short statements to reporters, announcing that José Sócrates was in custody, as considered “profoundly unjust and unjustified” and took the opportunity to mention that it will appeal the decision.
The dissemination of coercive measures ordered by the judge Carlos Alexandre, originally scheduled for 18:30, it was minutes after the departure of the lawyer Joao Araujo, about 22:30 by the voice of a court official. The TCIC ordered preventive detention of former Prime Minister José Sócrates, your John Leg driver and businessman Carlos Santos Silva for economic crime suspects. The lawyer Gonçalo Ferreira Trindade, Judge Carlos Alexandre determined the ban on contacts with the other defendants to be absent abroad, with the obligation to give the passport and to report weekly to the Central Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DCIAP) .
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