Researcher VIP list was Deputy Finance four months … – Business Journal – Portugal

The survey of the Finance Inspectorate (IGF) was conducted by Conceição Baptista, up to four months before worked in the secretary of State for Public Administration, advances the public.

Conceição Baptista who led the IGF team who conducted the inquiry into the VIP list of contributors was the Assistant State Public Administration Secretary at the Ministry of Finance up to four months before. The findings of the investigation exonerated Paul Nuncio any intervention or knowledge on such list, whose four names included in it (Pedro Passos Coelho, Paulo Portas, Cavaco Silva, Paulo Nuncio) did trigger an alert.

The news is advanced by the Public newspaper, which reconstitutes the Conceição Baptista path in the last year: IGF frame for 23 years, joined the government in January 2014, invited by José Leite Martins to his deputy, when it replaced the leadership of the IGF Secretary of State for Public Administration. 11 months later “he was discharged at his request, on November 3, 2014″ and returned to the IGF “already under the leadership of Victor Manuel Braz at the very height of the controversy on the VIP list.” March “was mandated to evaluate the case, and any secretary of the political responsibilities of State for Fiscal Affairs in the same Ministry that the inspector integrated, as an adjunct,” reads the paper.

The Public recalls the IGF’s code of ethics states that “conflict of interests where workers have or may have private or personal interests in a particular matter that may influence, directly or indirectly, or appear to influence the impartial performance of their order functions. ” The inspector did not consider being prevented from conducting the investigation and asked the Ministry of Finance also sees no impediments or conflicts of interest.

The paper also said that da Conceição Baptista team was part António Farinha Simon who is chairman of the supervisory board of CP, which receives 22,433 euros a year, having been appointed to the position by joint order of Sergio Monteiro, Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Communications, and Elizabeth Castelo Branco, Secretary of State of Treasury.