The Public Ministry (MP) de Beja accused a company and fifteen individuals of document forgery, to fraudulently obtain the Driver's Fitness Certificate (CAM), essential for obtaining a driver qualification card.
This qualification, both that obtained in initial training, like the continuous, every five years, is proven with CAM, document that together with the driving license, enables the driver to drive heavy goods and passenger vehicles.
According to the charge order that the Lidador News (LN) We had access, a Workspace.job,Lda, a company based in Crato, District of Portalegre, is a CAM training center, recognized as a training entity by the Institute of Mobility and Transport (IMT) and his manager are accused of having forged documents proving that a driver assigned to Rodoviária do Alentejo, based in Beja, did not attend the training course that allowed him to obtain the CAM.
According to the MP, the training action was communicated to the IMT that it would take place between 3 and 8 March 2018, lasting 35 hours, entre as 16,00 e as 23,00 hours, in the defendant's extension Workspace.job,Lda, in Macedo de Cavaleiros.
The MP found that a defendant resident in Pias (Serpa) and driver at Alentejo Bus Station, on the days and times you should be in training, drove company vehicles, maintaining that “the driver did not attend the action”, Remembering that between Beja and Macedo de Cavaleiros they are approximately 500 kilometers and would be needed at least 6,30 travel hours.
In another training action in which the manager of another company is also accused, “in communion of efforts and desires with another accused trainer”, issued and sold continuous training attendance certificates. This action “allegedly took place on the premises of Beja at Rodoviária do Alentejo, was never effectively taught” and involved eleven drivers from Rodoviária do Alentejo and Externato António Sérgio, the period 19 May and 9 June 2018, “allowing graduates, defendants in the case, obtain the qualification, when such training has never been, effectively delivered”, justifies the MP Prosecutor. According to the indictment, trainees paid between 150 and 250 for obtaining the CAM, without having attended training.
The manager of the company “Continuous Line-Training Entity, Lda” and the creator of the action that allegedly took place in Beja, are accused of the practice as material co-authorship and in the consummate form of 11 (our) document forgery crimes, while the remaining fourteen defendants are accused of a single crime with the same qualification.
At a certain point, the Alentejo Bus Station advertised on its buses the recruitment of drivers for whom the license and CAM were paid..
Six Bus Station drivers convicted. Company and administrators acquitted.
In 31 March 2020, six drivers from Rodoviária do Alentejo were sentenced to fines among the 600 and 1.600 euros, for the crimes of forgery of technical notation and documents. In this process, a company, two directors, an operational coordinator, a movement leader, a dispatcher/climber and a driver were acquitted.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
