Public: If Socrates began with research Silva Santos … – Business Journal – Portugal

Public: If Socrates began with research Silva Santos … – Business Journal – Portugal

The process in which the former minister is indicted it started in another, 2011, in which the investigation was Carlos Santos Silva, a businessman who is also now in custody. Lawyer says already exceeded the time limit for the investigation and requested the annulment of acts since May, says the public.

Was it, after all, an investigation of 2011 that the target was the manager Carlos Santos Silva, a friend of José Sócrates, which led to the current process, in which the former prime minister is indicted for crimes of corruption, tax fraud and qualified money laundering.

According to the edition of Friday the Público newspaper, the information contained in a request to the Central Criminal Court of the Socrates attorney in this for the declaration of all acts carried out in the survey from Socrates 31 May this year, such as, searches, wiretapping and the detention itself.

This is because, in order of the judge Carlos Alexandre, dated July 2013, it is stated that it was then that had beginning the process of Socrates, but refers to an earlier case where the investigation would be Carlos Santos Silva and will have begun in 2011.

The lawyer denies, on the other hand, the statement of special complexity of proceedings handed down in July this year. João Araújo alleges that since that declaration the extension of remand periods – up to one year without an indictment. – The law requires that the accused be heard before it is carried out, which would only happen after

Without this declaration, the lawyer said to be null, given the time it was made, the conclusion is that there is much sold out the deadlines for the investigation, asking João Araújo the nullity of acts performed after May 31 of this year.

This application runs in parallel with the application for review to the relationship, the lawyer of former prime minister has said he intends to deliver the next Monday.

The Morning Post advances today that the MP has been conducting new searches in order to consolidate the evidence already collected, particularly with regard to the crime of corruption of those in which Socrates is charged.

The accused is in custody in prison in Évora 17 days ago, it is not expected that this coercive measure may be changed until the end of 2014, since the ratio is at least 30 days to evaluate the resource, a term that is merely indicative and that a rule is not enforced.