the Inspectors of the National Unit Against Corruption conducted searches at the headquarters of the Holy House of Mercy of Lisbon, due to suspicions of favouritism in adjustments direct and other public contracts.
according To the Daily News, the searches took place today and aimed also the home of the administrator of the institution Helena Lopes da Costa, a former councilwoman in the municipality of Lisbon.
according To Lusa, which also progresses with the story in question is the fractioning of contracts to avoid the release of public tenders and allow adjustments to direct, and is also under investigation for the alleged favoring of companies.
in A note sent to the news agency, the Santa House has confirmed that “have been made, this morning, searches by the Judicial Police, within the scope of an investigation in some cases news alert scheme within a specific area of the SCML”.
“The directors of the SCML has given guidelines to its services to collaborate with the authorities”, reads the note.
According to the office of the Attorney General District of Lisbon (lisbon district prosecution department), also cited by Lusa, in the survey investigate-suspicions of “acquisition of goods and services by SCML with resource procurement by direct award to companies with relations to the workers and the organs of that institution”.
With this practice, says the lisbon district prosecution department, benefited unduly those companies and those workers “at the expense of rules governing the orderly functioning of the market”.
THE lisbon district prosecution department indicates that you are in the course of nine home searches, two searches of the workplace of lawyer and four searches are not home, in a survey directed by the Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DIAP) of the Lisbon, in collaboration with the National Unit for Combating Corruption of the PJ.
In operation, attended by two prosecutors, more than four dozens of elements of the Judicial Police and eight experts of the Unit of Financial Expertise and Accounting and Technology Unit and the Information of PJ.
according To the lisbon district prosecution department, the survey does not have the defendants made.
(updated news with the declaration of the lisbon district prosecution department)
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