The mayor of Funchal, Pedro Calado, resigned from his position following a judicial investigation against which he was targeted. Information provided by the publication To express and confirmed morning Post.
Pedro Calado was arrested on Wednesday as part of a major judicial operation in Madeira. The mayor is suspected of active and passive corruption, economic involvement in business, malfeasance, receiving or offering improper advantages, abuse of power and influence peddling.
“Yes, he will resign. He understood that this was an appropriate measure in the current circumstances,” lawyer Paulo Sae Cunha told reporters at the Justice Campus in Lisbon.
On Friday evening, inspectors of the Judicial Police (PJ) found banknotes worth 20 thousand euros in the house of Mayor Pedro Calado, as well as another 10 thousand euros hidden in the house of his mother.