Air Force: MP indicted the 86 accused of Operation Zeus.
The prosecutor indicted the 86 Defendants, in Operation Zeus, corruption suspects in the Air Force Messes. thirteen military, some high ranking, They will remain in custody, others 5 under house arrest.
Second to PJ, the suspects were involved in a scheme sobrefaturação goods and raw materials for meals confection messes in the Air Force.
In the first phase of Operation Zeus, in November 2016, They were arrested five men for active and passive corruption to tort and falsification of documents, on one “scam that may have damaged the state in about ten million euros”.
These searches took place on 3 November 2016 e segundo uma nota à comunicação social emitida nesse dia, the Attorney General's Office (PGR) reported that in the course of an investigation led by prosecutor, research in the Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DIAP) Lisbon, They were underway over 80 house searches and 25 no house searches, particularly in military equipment located in Greater Lisbon, Beja and Leiria.
The Judicial Police searches of air bases and facilities of the Air Force because of suspected corruption involving officials in messes. Since there will be several held. The Lidador News was on the ground (Photo PJ to enter the BA11).
In a second stage, last July, participated 130 PJ elements and 10 prosecutors, It has been made 36 searches in the areas of the districts of Lisbon, Port, Santarém, Setúbal, Évora and Faro, of which 31 domiciliary and five non-domiciliary.
A 3 of novemro of 2016, JN revealed that the investigation had been ongoing for about two years and searches are being carried out by inspectors of the Judicial Police and members of the Judicial Police Military.
There were suspicions of corruption in the supply of foodstuffs that are consumed in the units and research focus on officers and sergeants.
In the survey were investigated suspected, at least, since year 2015, some messes Air Force are supplied with food, whose amount payable, later, the General Staff of the Air Force, It would be subject to sobrefaturação.
No names are still known 86 accused of “operation Zeus”, but Lidador News know that soldiers from BA11, They were heard in the prosecution of Beja, in this process.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
