Regarding the investigation into the case of the Portuguese-Brazilian twins, the Minister of Justice emphasized this Wednesday that it is not her responsibility to “interfere with the powers of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PP)” and therefore awaits “the results of the investigation”. procedures” from the deputy.
“We are not going to interfere with the powers of the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) in this area. I shouldn’t, I can’t, I won’t do this. Naturally, the DPR will continue what it understands to be its actions and we will wait for the results of these procedures,” said Catarina Sarmento e Castro after visiting the Magalhães Lemos psychiatric hospital in Porto, talking about the case of Portuguese-Brazilian twins treated at Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon has one of the most expensive drugs in the world, allegedly using “wedges”.
The twins’ case was revealed in a TVI report broadcast in early November that the two Portuguese-Brazilian children traveled to Portugal in 2019 to receive the spinal muscular atrophy drug Zolgensma, which cost a total of about four million people. Euro.
According to TVI, there were suspicions that this happened under the influence of the President of the Republic, who denied any interference in the matter.
Regarding Wednesday’s visit to the hospital, the Justice Minister said that over the past few years the government has done everything possible to “provide justice with the necessary means”, be it through the creation of a new center of the Center for Judicial Studies (CEJ) in Vila. do Conde – the so-called training school for judges – or improving the functioning and timing of examinations at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences (INMLCF).
“Today we are already seeing in this hospital an expansion of the scope of examination, that is, faster examination,” the minister said, noting that “better conditions” allow for faster examination.
Catarina Sarmento e Castro also took the opportunity to say that “accelerating justice” was also the focus of the Judicial Police (JP), highlighting that “in the field of anti-corruption, the SP has 40% more elements.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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