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Two new defendants for Operation Marquês

tgvTwo high ranking managers at Infraestruturas de Portugal officially have been made suspects in the four-year-old Operation Marquês investigation.

One of the suspects also is a former PSD member of parliament. The two suspects, who belong to the senior management team of the company, have been involved in the TGV railway project.

The actual charges in the long-running investigation will not be known until September, infuriating the main suspect, José Sócrates.

The prosecutors are still waiting for a reply to a letter rogatory sent to the Swiss authorities, after which, charges can be announced.

Operation Marquês most recently has been investigating the Ongoing Group and its relationship to Portugal Telecom and Grupo Espírito Santo, the influences at play and how José Sócrates managed to live the life of a millionaire in Paris with no visible source of serious income.

The cast of characters in the investigation is extensive with the former president of BES, Ricardo Salgado, and his cousin, José Maria Ricciardi, in the frame.

At a lunch in Lisbon last Sunday, Sócrates, being investigated for corruption, fraud and money laundering, again described the performance of the Public Prosecutor's Office as "criminal," because of information leaks and delays in charging him.

The former PM also criticised the prosecutor's office over the Galp freebie football match tickets case but the clock is ticking for the silver fox and charges finally will be announced against the former-PM after the summer.

Other defendants include Sócrates’ former wife, Sofia Fava; a former Director of Caixa Geral de Depósitos and former socialist minister, Armando Vara; his daughter Bárbara Vara; Luso-Angolan businessman, Hélder Bataglia, Carlos Santos Silva, the businessman and friend of the former Prime Minister; Joaquim Barroca of the Lena Group; João Perna, Sócrates’ former chauffeur; Paulo Lalanda de Castro from Octapharma; Henrique Granadeiro and Zeinal Bava, former directors of PT, Inês do Rosário who is Carlos Santos Silva’s mother; the lawyer Gonçalo Trindade Ferreira and the businessmen Diogo Gaspar Ferreira and Rui Mão de Ferro.

To this list now can be added two top people at Infraestruturas de Portugal.

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+2 #10 Emma B 2017-07-28 14:26
Charly,
I try to understand that you are frustrated with life, and just to let you know that my physical and spiritual reality are quite balanced, thank you.
May be an idea to look at you own lifestyle balance though.... just a thought.
+6 #9 Neil M 2017-07-22 13:59
Steve.o,
Do you really think that Portugal did not have a fully developed judicial and police system 30 years ago. WOW !
Would recommend that you google Portugal in order to have a better understanding of the country.
-5 #8 Steve.O 2017-07-21 18:21
As a (high) ranking diplomat we must assume Charly knows the difference between 'overlooking' and 'looking back over ....' ? To a native English speaker one is horrendously clunky.

But Charly does emphasise one issue that main stream Portuguese media never examines. Did Portugal ever have all its EU Ducks in a Row 30 years ago? Back then completely misleading the EU that it had an established and fully functioning Justice and Policing system with a long history of fairly applying Regulations to all equally - regardless of rank. These Bad Fellas do Bad Things because, even now, it is highly unlikely anyone will risk standing up and stopping them. Instant Defamation !
So these investigations are always long after the horse has bolted; often even close to being out of time. The money is safely outside Portugal and any revelation of its whereabouts is happily dismissed by the Portuguese courts as 'gained illegally'!
0 #7 Margaridaana 2017-07-21 15:15
Quoting Emma B:
Charly,
Why do you continue to live in a country that you clearly do not like. If I was unhappy about any aspect of the country that I live in, I would not live here. But you continue to complain all of the time about corruption in Portugal and quite frankly I am fed up reading your continual negativity

Emma B, I really think that Charly likes living in Portugal (or maybe he would not have been here for so many years) but it is all that goes with it it that he finds frustrating. I guess we have all felt that way at some time or other.
-2 #6 Charly 2017-07-21 10:40
Emma, the day you can make the difference between "physical reality" and "spiritual reality" I think life will be more exciting and consequentely happier for you.
+3 #5 Emma B 2017-07-21 00:29
Charly,
Why do you continue to live in a country that you clearly do not like. If I was unhappy about any aspect of the country that I live in, I would not live here. But you continue to complain all of the time about corruption in Portugal and quite frankly I am fed up reading your continual negativity
-1 #4 Charly 2017-07-20 19:01
Hello Margaridaana, during many years I used to be operational as a (high) ranked diplomat in about 20 different countries. That allows me to "compare" countries a little bit....
+4 #3 Margaridaana 2017-07-20 15:24
Quoting Charly:
When we overlook the articles published in ALGARVEDAILYNEWS over the last couple of yours one can wonder if there are still "some decent and honest (white collar) people" left in this country, isn't it ?

Charlie, unfortunately this is not confined to Portugal. Corruption is endemic in politics the world over.
+2 #2 Ed 2017-07-20 08:57
Quoting Charly:
When we overlook the articles published in ALGARVEDAILYNEWS over the last couple of yours one can wonder if there are still "some decent and honest (white collar) people" left in this country, isn't it ?

Good people doing good things never seems to get into the main news but our Charity section is full of happy stories!
Portugal has a mound of corruption and fraud trials to get through in the next years or so, it will get worse before it gets better, but I hope this is the end of a certain class of corrupt, self-serving businessmen and politicians.
-2 #1 Charly 2017-07-20 08:10
When we overlook the articles published in ALGARVEDAILYNEWS over the last couple of yours one can wonder if there are still "some decent and honest (white collar) people" left in this country, isn't it ?

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