There are spies in banks, Finance and operators, says ‘chief of Secret’ – Sol

Julio Pereira, Secretary General of the Portuguese Republic Intelligence Service (SIRP), admitted today in court in the trial of the case of the ‘secret’, that information services may collect information in finance, telecom operators and banks.

According to the statements of the ‘head of the spies’, all these collections take place through protocols “formal” and “non-formal”, using “human sources”.

According to the Daily News, which advanced with this information, Júlio Pereira have however provided that the services only have access to basic data such as names and addresses.

the same newspaper also said that Secretary general of the SIRP said there ” red lines “for spies, making it clear that the secret not worth it, such as access to detailed faturações.

This is the second time that the maximum charge of information services is reporting under this case.

at the end of last year, before the judges, Julio Pereira clarified never have had access to detailed billing of the former journalist of the Public Nuno Simas and added that Silva Carvalho also never said you have request access to the data.

at this point, even he said that such an act can not, by law, be justified by the fact that the journalist had reported internal information of the ‘secret’. It also ensured only became aware later of Public news, which gave account of internal problems as it was on vacation when they were made public.

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This process has as Jorge Silva Carvalho accused the president of Ongoing, Nuno Vasconcellos, two agents SIED and a former official of Optimus. At issue are the illegitimate access crimes to personal data, abuse of power, violation of state secrecy and active and passive corruption for illicit act.

The Public Ministry (MP) maintains that Nuno Vasconcellos hired Silva Carvalho for company boards to get secret information. According to the MP, the defendant Gisela Teixeira, former employee of Optimus entered wrongly in the journalist Nuno Simas communications data in 2010. The journalist had reported the existence of an internal tension in SIED.