The prosecutor is already investigating political involvement in the sales business to Telefónica of PT shares in Brazilian Vivo and the cross-shareholdings with Brazilian operator Hi, which intervened José Dirceu, the main face of the case Mensalão and now hit by the Operation Lava jet . Suspected financial benefits, amounting to several tens of millions of euros, granted to governments, shareholders and senior executives from operators may be the source of the inquiry.
“Investigations related to the topics covered in the email are secret justice.” This was the response of the prosecution to three specific questions PUBLIC. One questioned whether the MP ‘ is investigating the financial transactions involving managers of PT and Portuguese and Brazilian governments, notably in 2010 during the sales business of Vivo’s shares (50%) held by PT to the Spanish company Telefonica (which paid EUR 7500 million) and consequent Brazilian entry Hi PT and PT in Hi “. He was referring to here that “information gathered by PUBLIC point to money movements ‘extra’ that may have been around 200 million euros.” This was u m business complex contours that was achieved in record time:. Less than a month
The second question PUBLIC aimed to clarify whether the MP confirmed having received collaboration asked for a Brazilian police authorities to determine the extent of the contacts that were established between 2005 and 2011 in the next rounds “of former President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the former Prime Minister Jose Socrates. There are precisely five years, Socrates and Lula da Silva spoke several times on the phone. The conversations took place between late June and late July and were aimed at finding a solution to the impasse caused by Socrates veto the sale to Telefónica of PT shares in Brazilian Vivo.
June 25, 2010 the former Prime Minister conveys that gave guidance to the Caixa Geral de Depósitos, with 8% of PT, for, at the general meeting of June 30, vote against the deal. This triggers a trial of strength with the management of PT (Zeinal Bava and Henry Grenadier), aligned with Ricardo Salgado, who led the BES, the main shareholder of the operator with 10% interest. One of the rare times when Salgado (the main target in the GES inquiries / BES) was back to back to Socrates
The former head of government justified its position with an old thesis:. “The strategic interest “Brazil, the” size and scale of PT “to ensure that Portugal had in the economic sector of ICT” a company with an international dimension which to base engineering, industrial design, innovation, focus investments in R & D Research & amp; Development) “. And, accordingly, at its meeting on June 30 he played even with the golden share (“golden share”, with power of decision) and caught operation. There was only the BES, the Ongoing (10%), the Visabeira (2%) and Telefónica (9.7%) to find a Brazilian PT solution alternative to Vivo. What is triggered in an emergency framework for BES (and the indebted Ongoing), facing a financial squeeze following the crisis of 2007. And today it is known that since 2008 the ESI, the head of the GES, had a hole in the accounts of euro 1,300 million hidden from the Bank of Portugal until November 2013, about nine months before the BES be operated upon.
Then began a race against time to bypass the block political, which required a great job behind the scenes. The solution was quickly found in Brasilia, who suggested the PT to evaluate the Hi (stronger in the fixed segment in the mobile) as potential partner. Conceived as a major Brazilian operator, Hi needed to consolidate a leveraged shareholder structure in the Brazilian state bank Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social (BNDES). On the other hand, the Hi appeared as an answer to Socrates’ requirement that the PT remained with presence in Brazil.
One of the figures that appeared to promote contacts between Portuguese, Brazilian and Spanish was José Dirceu who was chief of staff of former President Lula da Silva Republic and eventually arrested in 2012, accused of being the “ringleader” of case Mensalão . Dirceu (Jose Dirceu Oliveira e Silva), the architect of the campaign that led Lula da Silva to the presidency in 2003, provided services to enterprises, in particular to involved in big business in need of political guarantees, an action that stemmed through societies law and consulting, designated Oliveira e Silva, JD consultants and JC & amp;. S still in active
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