The two defendants in the case of paid trips to Turkey in 2015, among which Nuno Mourinho, IT technician of the Chamber of Ferreira do Alentejo. Company pays 15.000 euro fine.
ANO-Sistemas de Informática, Lda., do Porto, Manuel Amorim, resident in Famalicão, managing partner of that company and Nuno Mourinho, computer engineer at Ferreira do Alentejo City Council, They were sentenced, on this tuesday afternoon, the first the fine and the second imprisonment., suspended from effective, for crimes of improper receipt of advantage, in the case of paid travel to Turkey in April 2015.
Manuel Amorim, He was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison and Nuno Mourinho to 2 years in prison, both suspended, the first of the defendants will have to pay 2.000 euros and the second 1.000 euros to Fire Departments in the area of residence. ANO was sentenced to 100 days of the fine 150 euros / day, in total 15.000 euros.
For failing to read the judgment and for the fact that the judge did not accept the request delivered at the time by lawyer Sílvio Cervan, Manuel Amorim was also condensed to a fine of 2 unit of account, no Toral 204 euros.
This was the first trial and conviction in the case of a trip to Turkey, performed between 15 and 21 April 2015, which the company designated as “User Meeting-Istanbul 2015”, having sent invitations to mayors and other local government officials and municipal companies, in which it assumed the payment of the costs inherent to it in the global amount of 35.365 euros, proceeding with the sharing of this cost among the invited actors, the defendant company spent the amount of 885 euros.
During the reading of the judgment, the president of the Collective, Vítor Maneta, to sustain the penalties applied, he justified in cases of this kind and recalled the many corruptions that occurred between pharmacists and doctors that "society demands the application of tougher measures and the application of prison sentences", arguing that "what was heavily indicted during the trial is that things went beyond the alleged crimes", concluded.
The magistrate condemned Manuel Amorim's behavior in court, to whom he pointed out the fact that he said that "it came to the absurd of saying that the recreational part of the trips was the responsibility of the travel agency", going even further by stating that "in court there was some display of smart-ass chico", Maneta ended Vítor.
From the process of travel to Turkey, which began with a complaint of institution in the Court of Penamacor, several certificates were withdrawn awaiting trial..
PENAMACOR
Last day 19 May, the Court of Appeal of Coimbra, reversed the decision of a judge from the Fundão court and ordered the defendants involved in this process to be tried, namely the president and vice-president of the Penamacor Chamber.
BRAGA
On 2 June, prosecutors, accused 13 people, including 6 Mayors, of improper receipt of advantage, asking for the loss of mandate for the mayor of Amares, the vice of Famalicão and a councilor from Vizela.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
