Court reduces to six years imprisonment Duarte Lima – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
 

The Lisbon Court of Relationship fell on Friday from ten to six years in jail condemnation of Duarte Lima if Homeland, a real estate swindle made with land in Oeiras at the expense of the Portuguese Business Bank.

what could be good news for the former PSD leader has, however, two snags: firstly, to reduce the sentence to six years, the judges unfeasible one Duarte Lima feature to the Supreme Court, whose jurisdiction only starts in the seven years in prison; on the other, both Lima Duarte as the remaining condemned the case will still have to pay compensation to Parvalorem, the state company that was with toxic assets nationalized BPN, an amount of up to 17.5 million euros.

in the defense Duarte Lima remains possibly appeal to the Constitutional Court and then invoke some kind of void in its judgment of 900 pages of the Court of appeal – whose content has not been unveiled today or to journalists or lawyers of the parties, only the receive next week by mail. Just know that the penalties laid down by the lower court judges were all reduced.

In this judgment of 900 pages written by the judge Rui Rangel, member of Duarte Lima in this business, the former deputy PSD Victor Raposo saw shrink to four to six years in prison which it had applied in November 2014, while the penalty effective chain Francisco Canas, the scalper also known as “Ze Medals” that blew the profits of real estate transaction Oeiras to a bank account in Switzerland decreased from four to three years. He was convicted of money laundering, crime Duarte Lima was also found guilty. Two others involved in the scheme, the lawyer João Almeida e Paiva and his brother Pedro Almeida e Paiva, have ended up with suspended sentences and see halved the 50,000 euros initially set to pay the Portuguese Institute of Oncology.

it was around the transfer of this health unit Plaza of Spain, Lisbon, Oeiras that turned the fraud orchestrated by Duarte Lima, that it involved a child but acquitted for justice.

to buy land around those where he was to be transferred to the institute, with the intention that they develop a real estate project, Lima Duarte and his partner did believe the boss of BPN, Oliveira e Costa, stand before an irresistible deal. Have it will not only convinced to participate in a real estate fund created for this purpose as well as to lend them money so they could subscribe the remaining capital of the fund. The loan of the former BPN for the building project of the two partners was nearly 43 million euros, holding the bank, nationalized in 2008, 15% stake in Homeland background. But the two Social Democrats have inflated the price they would pay for the land to its original owners, to embolsarem to difference.

In the words of the lower court judges, Duarte Lima and Victor Raposo “drew” 17 8 million euros to the bank led by Oliveira Costa, to use in your personal benefit and for the benefit of his accomplices.

But the former PSD leader accused the judges who condemned the first time they have incurred “deep and egregious factual errors” and also in “errors of law”. He blamed the housing crisis and the collapse of the BPN by the failure of Homeland fund business. In the land in question never came to build anything. The Portuguese Institute of Oncology also ended up never leaving the Plaza of Spain.