On Monday, the foreign secretary said he had already done a quick “mental exercise” by examining 36 questions on the government’s new gubernatorial candidate questionnaire and that he had “no doubt” that he would answer “no problem.”
“I have already done a mental exercise by going through the questions very quickly. I have no doubt that I can answer this questionnaire without any problems,” he said when asked in Brussels if he could answer the newly created questionnaire. by the government, although this is only intended for future secretaries of state and ministers and not for rulers already in office.
Speaking to the press on the sidelines of a meeting of EU diplomats, João Gomes Cravinho also commented on the news on the eve of CNN Portugal that he was a partner in a real estate company whose founder, António da Silva Barão, was involved in commercial real estate that damaged Novo Banco’s settlement fund (NB) for 260 million euros, considering that the association created is “completely slanderous”.
“I want to say right away that the association with the person who was the former owner of the acquired company is completely defamatory with him,” he began with an explanation.
João Gomes Cravinho, on the other hand, admitted to knowing “many, many years” another partner of property management company Eurolocarno, Marcos Lagoa, who, according to CNN Portugal, has already been convicted of tax fraud, but guaranteed that “he does not knew of any legal or tax issues,” and emphasized that it had nothing to do with those issues.
“Since 2015 I have actually become a partner of this company, I have never had any managerial responsibilities and I found out yesterday [domingo] that, apparently, one of the partners had problems of a financial nature. I was completely unaware of this, but I want to emphasize that these problems have nothing to do with the company, and even less so with me.
“There is no connection between me and any legal issues that may exist. The company itself has never had any legal problems, its taxes are in order, it has no social security debts. And, since joining the “Government, in successive statements to the Constitutional Court, has stated that I have 20% of the shares, and not the majority, as it was said initially,” concluded Joao Gomes Cravinho.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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