The director of the Security Information Service (SIS), Adelio Neiva da Cruz, took full responsibility this Thursday in Parliament for the solution of this service to restore the computer of the former Assistant Minister of Infrastructure.
Opposition sources in Parliament told Lusa that Adelio Neiva da Cruz, who was heard behind closed doors in the Constitutional Affairs Commission, told MPs that the sequence of events was different from what was relayed in Tuesday’s hearing by Portugal’s Information System Audit Committee. Republic.
According to the same reports, the director of the CCC claimed that he knew that it was classified information, but did not know what kind of information it was and the degree of its confidentiality, because he took the word of the chief of staff of the Ministry of Infrastructures. as reliable.
The Neiva da Cruz hearing lasted about two hours, there were no statements for journalists at the end, and the Secretary General of the Information System of the Portuguese Republic (SIRP), Graça Ambassador Mira Gomes is there from 19:30 to be heard by the Participants.
The case, opened on April 26, involved former deputy Frederico Pinheiro’s allegations of physical abuse at the Ministry of Infrastructure and the theft of a laptop after he was fired, and the controversy intensified when SIS’s involvement became known. . when you restore this computer.
The episode sparked a public disagreement between President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Prime Minister António Costa over keeping Infrastructure Minister João Galamba in government.