Many criticize, but the contract is closed. Diogo Lacerda Machado, “personal friend” of António Costa, will earn 2000 euros per month plus VAT until the end of the year, as a special adviser to the prime minister’s office. However, not only by the contract the name of Diogo Lacerda Machado has been at the center of controversy. The lawyer has done much ink to flow through the links that have businesses that are being investigated: the acquisition of VEM to TAP and also SIRESP and Kamov helicopters, when Antonio Costa was Minister of Internal Affairs in the first government of Socrates <. / p>
Among the business that was involved is the purchase of VEM, a business that today is for TAP a loss of several million weighing on the carrier’s accounts. But there are others, such as recalls Antonio Galamba in the opinion “We pachyderms in store,” which begins by saying that “friendship after deposed antiquity, seems to take place post”.
Antonio Galamba recalls the involvement of a lawyer in the Integrated System of Emergency and Security Networks Portugal (SIRESP) and controversial acquisition of Kamov helicopters. “It is so clear discomfort on the left as the answer to the intervention of someone with long experience negotiating and intervention in government processes, for example in SIRESP or acquiring Kamov helicopters. The left embatucou and only at a later point is that outlined a variable geometry reaction, “he writes, adding,” There was too much opacity in the previous government privatizations and a deliberate delay in defining the list of national strategic assets to safeguard that ended not include water. It was good that the new time alleged bring more transparency and more popular scrutiny. “
Controversy helicopters In February this year, Operation Crossfire dragged the purchase of Kamov to a new wave of questions. Bought by António Costa, since they arrived ten years ago Portugal were the subject of much controversy, some considered suspect by the authorities. In the investigation of the sights were the purchase and maintenance of air assets related to fire fighting. And one of the points that have raised more doubts is the passage of the maintenance of the Company’s means of Air Media (EMA) for private companies.
In addition, this purchase – where Antonio Galamba recalls that Lacerda Machado was also involved – has undergone several repairs in an audit of the Court of Auditors to the EMA. But the judges still considered to have been paid, the maintenance, over 22 million unnecessarily to Heliportugal, the company chosen to bring the six Kamov to Portugal for more than 42 million euros.
But not only the business of Kamov proved doubtful. Also SIRESP, another bet Coast, has been in the news in recent years by serious flaws and costly spending on maintenance.
Ten years of problems First, Mr Costa said he did not like the SIRESP model but turned back and closed business with the group led by Sociedade Lusa de Negócios, the BPN. The contract was signed by 485.5 million euros in May 2006. When i in February this year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs assured that since the signing of the agreement, in early 2006, and by the end of 2014 the national communication system cost the coffers 270 million euros (excluding VAT).
Now, when there are still fulfill five of the 15 year contract of the original agreement, the government of Costa completed a period of negotiations to renegotiate the contract. The executive claims to have achieved a great deal:. Renegotiated downwards the amount of rent to be paid to private and at the same time ensured that the service (with faults reported recurrently) is strengthened
i tried unsuccessfully to get a response from the prime minister’s office.
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