“José Sócrates has not and never had any business with Hélder Bataglia” – TVI24

João Araújo, lawyer José Sócrates, devalued, on Saturday, the association of former prime minister to journalistic investigation of the Panama Papers case. At issue are transfers of money from the Holy Spirit Enterprises that the Public Ministry (MP) believed to have benefited José Sócrates.

We have a wonderful research . We have had in Algeria, in Vale de Lobo, Venezuela … now we have come to Panama. Where we have not reached, and we will not get, is an indictment of concrete facts that have to do with José Sócrates engineer “ , the lawyer said in an interview with TVI24 .

To João Araújo, the invalid MP’s statements as “not the changes in charges.”

we have constantly inventing new tracks, new facts, new hypotheses that later come to be replaced by other “ he said and stressed that ” research reached a dead end because the end of this time all did not present a single fact “ .

without showing any concern for the progress of investigations and the latest revelations in the case of Panama papers, the lawyer believes that there is only “speculation, congeminações, insinuations” and ensure that “so will continue to be in the future.”

“There is no one that we can say ‘now here is the corruption of the engineer José Sócrates “.

Operation Marquis has 12 defendants, including Carlos Santos Silva, a friend of Socrates, Joaquim Barroca and Hélder Bataglia all they now also related to the case of Panama papers.

What this money does not belong and never belonged to José Sócrates engineer. He did not even have any business with you Hélder Bataglia or offshore and this is in the process [Marquis] “ , he said.

The thesis of MP targets a luxury resort that Battaglia’s owner, Vale de Lobo.

“the suspicion was that the strongman Escom would have to reach 12 million Joaquim Barroca accounts that in turn, would have transferred shortly thereafter in several tranches, the money to other accounts of Carlos Santos Silva, a businessman and longtime friend of José Sócrates, which, according to the prosecutor Rosario Teixeira, would have interfered when he was Prime Minister in order to benefit the enterprise, “wrote the journalist TVI , Rui Araujo, who has developed the research work on the Panama papers with Micael Pereira journalist Express , both are part of the International Investigative Journalists Consortium (ICIJ).

the lack of “unlawful act” is, in the lawyer’s opinion, reason enough not to appreciate the case or the “scraps “the MP. While any charge is not formalized, Operation Marquis already have deadline to fix the completion of the investigation, September 15.

João Araújo said that will accompany the development of the Panama papers but “will not waste time “to review the documents for no reason.