Amadeu Guerra says the think tank never secured the European Public Prosecutor's cooperation and had little effect on cases. Its members say prevention, not prosecution, was always the point.
Lisbon's Court of Appeal found that the decision not to try them failed to set out the facts behind it, and sent the case back to an investigating judge. The ruling was not unanimous.
The Prosecutor-General's Office confirmed the inquiry, opened on a complaint the Bloco de Esquerda filed in April. It is the first time the base's use since the war began has come before the justice system rather than only parliament.
Seven people and six companies are accused of 44 counts of subsidy fraud and one of money laundering, over rural development grants paid by IFAP between 2011 and 2015 for projects from Grândola to Ponte de Sor.
Decree-Law 196/2026 sets up regional offices of specialist advisers for Portugal's courts and public prosecutors, on three-year terms paid from 2,790 to 3,250 euros a month. It takes effect 60 days after Tuesday's publication.
Prosecutors have closed the inquiry into the 4 million euro Zolgensma treatment at Santa Maria. Nuno Rebelo de Sousa, Lacerda Sales and the hospital's former clinical director face malfeasance charges; the defence calls them baseless.
Porto prosecutors say intruders hijacked a Braga firm's email and sent fake supplier messages with new IBANs. Two people are charged with laundering the money; one used a fake bank employee.
