PJ searches in the Holy House of Mercy of Lisbon – Diário de Notícias – Lisbon

in Addition to the headquarters of the Holy House of Mercy of Lisbon , the inspectors were still in the house of Helena Lopes da Costa, director of the institution

The Judicial Police is to investigate suspicions of bias in adjustments direct and other public procurement contracts in the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa.

This Tuesday, the institution was the target of searches by inspectors of the National Unit Against Corruption. Also the home of the administrator of the institution Helena Lopes da Costa, a former councilwoman in the town Hall of Lisbon, was the target of searches.

The process is of the 9th section of the Department of Investigation and Penal Action of Lisbon.

The Public Ministry reported, however, that the investigation relates to suspected of the crime of economic participation in business. According to the office of the Attorney General District of Lisbon (lisbon district prosecution department) in the inquiry investigating-if suspected 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.

in A note sent to Lusa, the Santa Casa reported 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.

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