The defense team for former Prime Minister Vitor Escaria’s chief of staff will appeal the coercive measures taken during Operation Influential Man, while consultant Diogo Lacerda Machado’s lawyer is still assessing the scenario.
“We will appeal,” lawyer Thiago Rodríguez Bastos, who represents Vitor Escaria in this investigation, assured Lusa, given Monday’s decision by the Central Criminal Court (TCIC) to impose a coercive measure in the form of a travel ban on the foreigner. obligation to surrender his passport to the court after being seriously charged with an influence peddling offence.
The defense of lawyer and consultant Diogo Lacerda Machado, in charge of the case of Manuel Magalhães and Silva, stressed that there is still time to analyze the decision of Judge Nuno Díaz Costa, who found the crime of influence peddling sufficiently charged.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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