Judge Carlos Alexandre says the commission has referred public-procurement cases to prosecutors and the Court of Auditors and flagged anomalous prescribing, without saying how many cases or how much money.
MENAC and its Italian, French, Hungarian and Slovenian counterparts say defence money must not come at the expense of transparency. At home, the declaration civil servants should sign has now been postponed four times.
The Superior Council of the Public Prosecution Service backs the aim of three bills to reopen the donor lists that went dark after a data-protection ruling, while faulting the PS text for vagueness and the BE text for lacking any proportionality.
The Ministério Público has closed the third corruption file to grow out of the EDP case against José Sócrates's economy minister. Prosecutors could not prove he steered a state tourism contract to the consultancy that later employed him, his son and his stepdaughter.
Fernando Teixeira dos Santos told the Operação Marquês trial the choice was his alone. His immediate predecessor testified in November that Sócrates had insisted on Vara from the start, and the prosecution built a corruption count on that appointment.
Eduardo Vitor Rodrigues, mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia for twelve years, was cleared of malfeasance and misappropriation over two municipally funded trips in 2015 and 2016 worth 15,800 euros. The judge called his choices censurable, then called them political.
The European Public Prosecutor's Office has charged 15 defendants — 12 people and three companies — in 'Operation Nexus,' an alleged scheme to rig PRR-funded IT tenders at a public university, costing the EU over €3.5 million. Two are in preventive detention.
