Supreme Court upholds eight-year prison sentence for Ricardo Salgado

The Supreme Court upheld Ricardo Salgado’s eight-year prison sentence for three crimes of breach of trust in a separate trial from Operation Marquez.

In a decision that CM However, the advisory judges believe that no effective prison sentence can be imposed without the trial court requesting a medical examination of the former banker to confirm a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.

Only after this investigation will the possibility of suspending the eight-year prison sentence be assessed, which would prevent Salgado from going to prison. Let us recall that the group of judges who tried the former president of the BES refused to order a medical examination during the trial.