On Wednesday, the SP discovered 20 thousand euros in banknotes in the house of Pedro Calado and another 10 thousand hidden in the house of the mother of the mayor of Funchal, a report said this Friday. TVI.
The mayor’s mother will be her son’s figurehead. He received the bribe money and transferred it to Pedro Calado’s account, according to wiretaps and surveillance of the investigation’s targets.
The joint venture also discovered money of suspicious origin in the accounts of Pedro Calado. “Between 2018 and 2021, which coincided with the period in which he served as vice-president of the regional government of Madeira, Pedro Calado, through an intermediary, made cash deposits amounting to 67 thousand euros,” the public organization said. Ministry (MP) in progress.
On Wednesday, the Ministry of Justice and the National Anti-Corruption Unit of the Judicial Police carried out a major judicial operation in Madeira and on the mainland. The PS detained the mayor of Funchal and two managers: Avelino Fariña from the AFA group and Custodio Correia from Sociocorreia.
The investigation suspects that “revenues of more than 17 million euros” relate to contracts awarded between 2011 and 2024 with Sociocorreia, and a further 17 million from three contracts concluded in six months with the AFA group.
The operation plunged the autonomous region into a political crisis that led to the resignation of the regional executive president, Miguel Albuquerque.
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