The Defense José Sócrates said on Thursday that the new investigations of the prosecution concern facts that the accused was not confronted.
the prosecutor held Thursday searches in both institutions bank as part of Operation Marquis, to collect evidence of the “services provided by Caixa BI and former BESI (current Haitong) to a customer.”
in a statement tonight, lawyers Socrates, Joao Araujo and Pedro Delille, states that “the investigations now trumpeted around business Portugal Telecom, if they relate to facts, have to do with suspicions that José Sócrates engineer has ever faced and serve to only accepting -as the ‘Process Marquis’ pretextar reasons that explain the new violation, that guess, one more time for the termination of the investigation. “
” And yet you want the prosecutors continue to new steps and launch for the new public space suspicions that this procedural framework, are just more insults, “said the statement.
As for today’s searches, the Attorney General’s Office (PGR ), said he was not concerned the responsibility of those banks.
in these proceedings, the prosecutor was assisted by the Tax Authority (aT) and the Public Security Police (PSP).
according to the PGR, in this process, which runs under the Central Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DCIAP) investigate is susceptible facts to integrate the crimes of corruption, tax fraud and money laundering.
on the 14th, the prosecution held also search also under Operation Marquis, the companies of the PT group, homes of former managers of the company and a law firm.
question said at the time the PGR were “possible links between financial circuits investigated in this survey and the PT and Holy Spirit groups.”
Operation Marquis has more than a dozen defendants, including former -First Minister Jose Socrates, who is indicted for the crimes of qualified tax fraud, money laundering and accepting bribes for illicit act.
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