The Supreme Council of the Judiciary (CSM) has launched an investigation into Judge Carlos Alexandre for possible breach of duty in the EDP case, an official source in the body told Luce on Wednesday.
This is the certificate obtained by the CSM, confirmed by the body for the management and discipline of judges on June 7, based on the recent decision of the Court of Appeal of Lisbon (TRL), in which the judges ordered the return of the old-age pension. 26,000 euros to former Economy Minister Manuel Piño, who was arrested by order of a judge at the Central Criminal Court (TCIC).
“The reported situation warrants an investigation under the provisions of Article 123.º-A of the Statute of Judicial Magistrates to assess whether such conduct may constitute a disciplinary offence,” the same source cited, adding: “A Judicial Inspector has been appointed for this investigative process, which is already underway.
The report sent to TRL reports a “situation that may constitute a breach of ‘(…) the duty to comply with decisions rendered on appeal by higher courts’ (…) in relation to Mr Justice Carlos Alexander.” .
On May 25, the Lisbon Court ruled in part to grant the appeal filed in December by the defense of the former governor. be re-arrested at the request of the prosecutor’s office and on the orders of Judge Carlos Alexandre.
Thus, the judges understood that this action by the investigating judge “may constitute a breach of the ‘duty of execution of decisions rendered on appeal by higher courts’”, as stated in the latter judgment.
The former minister’s pension was seized to secure the payment of five million euros, but TRL stressed that the order, contested by Manuel Piño’s defense, did not indicate the market value of assets that had already been seized.
This order also ordered the TRL to return items seized during searches of the former minister’s home on November 3 (wine, handicrafts, a pinball machine and a bag of golf clubs), since “no reference was made to the fact that the assets, those arrested in this case are the instruments of the indicted crimes or their products.”
Former Minister of Economy (between 2005 and 2009) Manuel Piño will answer in the EDP trial for the crime of passive corruption for a wrongful act, another crime of passive corruption, the crime of money laundering and the crime of tax fraud.
His wife, Alexandra Pinho, will be tried for money laundering and another for tax fraud – in material co-authorship with her husband, and former BES president Ricardo Salgado – for an activity-related crime. corruption act by illegal act, one is the crime of active corruption and the other is money laundering.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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