Secret check did not reveal illegal actions of the CCC to restore the computer of the former deputy Galamba

SIRP’s supervisory board said this Wednesday that the elements it collected “do not allow us to draw a conclusion” about the illegal actions of the Security Information Service to return the laptop of former Deputy Minister Joao Galamba.

“The collected elements do not allow us to conclude on the illegal actions of the SIS, especially any violation of the rights, freedoms and guarantees,” say Joaquim Ponte, Constanza Urbano de Sousa and Mario Belo Morgado, who make up the Portuguese Information System Supervisory Board in a statement. Republic (CFSIRP).

CFSIRP states that “there is no indication that any police action was taken by the SIS in recovering the computer in question” and that “everything points to the fact that the computer was handed over voluntarily to those who owned it on the public road” and , he emphasizes, “therefore, outside the context of their place of residence and without the use of any coercive or legally prohibited means.”

SIS delivered the computer on the same day it was received from “CEGER, the body responsible for public electronic security and the prevention of loss or inappropriate dissemination of information,” adds the SIRP Supervisory Board.

The Supervisory Board of the Portuguese Secret Agencies stressed that the actions of the SIS, “which is a security service,” took place “within the bounds of urgency” and “in accordance with the logic of risk prevention, driven by the exclusive purpose, in the face of a situation that was presented as a threat of disclosure of classified information maintaining its integrity and confidentiality.

With regard to CFSIRP, SIS noted in its work “the requirement of necessity and proportionality, which always determine the work of security forces and services.”

In a communiqué, CFSIRP confirms that it conducted this investigation “immediately and on its own initiative” in order to “obtain elements necessary for the performance of its functions.”

The laptop found by SIS belongs to the state and was handed over to Frederico Pinheiro, a former assistant to infrastructure minister João Galamba, who was exonerated last week.

According to news published in the media, Federico Pinheiro, after being informed of his rehabilitation, had to enter the premises of the ministry to collect a laptop that contained confidential information related to issues raised in the commission of inquiry, the political guardianship of TAP.

Later, the former MP was the target of complaints of physical abuse and the theft of a laptop at the Ministry of Infrastructure, and controversy intensified when the Information and Security Service (SIS) intervened in the restoration of this equipment.