Prosecutors charged the former PSP agent with passive corruption and aggravated forgery for falsifying fines from the company, also accused, in exchange for money, after the manager, now accused, committed traffic violations.
According to a statement released Monday on the website of the Porto District Attorney’s Office, the prosecutor’s office “charged the defendant with six offenses of passive corruption and six offenses of aggravated forgery, as well as another defendant, an individual and a company managed by them. for committing six crimes of active corruption, and as perpetrators of six crimes of forgery with aggravated circumstances.”
According to the deputy, the PSP agent, meanwhile retired, “in six cases, from 2015 to 2019, on the fact of committing traffic violations by a vehicle of this company, filled out tear-off questionnaires addressed to the same name and designed to identify the driver with data and signatures of third parties, including persons who have died or are residing abroad.”
Said agent will, according to the deputy, be responsible for “connecting the PSP and the Land Transportation Mobility Institute, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Automobile Registry.”
The deputy understands that the former agent acted “with the aim of favoring the co-accused and the society he represents” and “with the aim of preventing the punishment, as he succeeded, of the conductor’s true attachment to this society.”
According to the deputy, the agent was bribed “in exchange for sums of money paid to him by this co-defendant, a representative of the same company.”
The MP also asked to deprive the benefits of crime.