Case of travel paid to Turkey in 2015, now reaches court. One of the defendants is an employee of the Ferreira do Alentejo City Council.
Six years after travel to Turkey paid for by a computer company to several people, including cadres and mayors, the case comes to trial today at the Central Criminal Court of Beja, before a Collective Court, chaired by Judge Victor Maneta.
ANO-Sistemas de Informática, Lda., do Porto, Manuel Amorim, resident in Famalicão, managing partner of the company and Nuno Mourinho, computer engineer at Ferreira do Alentejo City Council, are accused by the Department of Investigation and Criminal Action (DIAP) Évora, crimes of undue receipt of advantage.
At stake is a trip to Turkey, between 15 and 21 April 2015, which the company designated as “User Meeting-Istanbul 2015â€, 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.
The process started after the denunciation of an independent movement from Penamacor, where the managing partner of ANO and mayors were accused of the same crimes. From this case, certificates were extracted, including the Ferreira do Alentejo municipality.
The start of the trial was scheduled for mid-January, but confinement because of covid-19, of the lawyer SÃlvio Cervan, defender of a company and its owner, led to the postponement of the process. Cervan is vice president of Sport Lisboa e Benfica and a man very close to LuÃs Filipe Vieira who was infected with the new coronavirus, result of the outbreak within the red team detected at Seixal facilities.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
