MP represents six defendants after searches in Lisbon City Council. At stake will be “violation of the rules for hiring a PS history from Castelo Branco for the purpose of managing public works in the capital.”

This Friday, the three companies and their respective legal representatives traveled with the defendants in a process that led to raids on Lisbon City Council earlier this week, the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) told Lusa.

“After this Friday’s searches, the Prosecutor General’s Office approved the composition of six defendants, three companies and their legal representatives,” PGR said in a statement, without adding any further information.

On Wednesday, TVI/CNN Portugal reported that the Judicial Police raided the Lisbon Chamber for “suspicions of corruption, economic involvement in business and forgery” in connection with an appointment to “provide services that was signed in 2015” by the then mayor Fernando Medina (PS), who is now the Minister of Finance.

Luce The Lisbon Chamber confirmed the searches in the Department of Urban Development, but sent further clarifications to the judiciary.

Público recalled in its edition on Thursday that, as the newspaper reported in 2018, it was concerned about the conclusion of a contract between 2015 and 2016 for consulting services for PS “history” Joaquim Morão, the former mayor of Idanha a Nova. and Castelo Branco for technical support in the management of municipal projects and works.

Also on Thursday, PGR pointed out to Luce that the case, which led to the searches being carried out in the Lisbon Chamber’s urban planning department, has not yet received defendants and is subject to judicial secrecy.

According to TVI/CNN Portugal, what is at stake is “violation of the rules for hiring a historic policeman in Castelo Branco to manage public works in the capital.”

“The State Department believes that the purpose of the scheme was to obtain money for public works by using bribes from contractors to illegally fund the penitentiary through the so-called “blue bags,” TVI reports.

Also, according to the TV channel, in addition to the municipality, the companies of two businessmen from Castelo Branco, suspected of participating in a fundraising scheme, participated in the searches.

“Targets on suspicion of corruption are Joaquim Morao, a former socialist and former mayor of Castelo Branco and Idanha a Nova, and his friend António Realino, a businessman from the same area of ​​the country, who even served a prison sentence for fraud,” he pointed out.