This Wednesday, the Judicial Police (PJ) carry out searches in the Cascais City Council, which is headed by Carlos Carreiras and where, until January 2024, the Vice President was the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Miguel Pinto Luz. We are talking about the investigation of corruption crimes during the construction of a factory for the production of surgical masks during the Covid-19 pandemic. No arrests are planned.
In June 2020, the Cascais City Council launched its own production of customized protective surgical masks for the population, with equipment sourced from China and also supplied to other municipalities. To this end, the municipality converted an old warehouse into a mask factory early in the Covid-19 pandemic, when health authorities were still debating whether the use of masks should be mandatory or even recommended. About 500 thousand euros were invested.
The municipality, he added, had purchased two machines from China and, as of June 28, 2020, had a “production capacity of more than five million masks per month, at a unit cost of [era] half the best price offered on the market.”
At the time, the council installed 400 mask machines throughout the municipality and distributed them free to public transport users.
“We have a clear conscience in the sense that we have not committed any illegal actions in this area. We are cooperating with the authorities, it will soon be seen what actions will be taken,” said the President of the Cascais Chamber, Carlos Carreiras. journalists.
Author: Tanya Laranjo
Source: CM Jornal
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