Mértola: Former president of the IPSS Moreanes convicted of embezzlement.
The former president of the Center for the Elderly of Moreanes (CAIN), municipality of Mértola, a social solidarity institution (IPSS), He was sentenced to one year and six months in prison for a crime of embezzlement and other prohibited weapon detention.
The president of the Collective of Judges, Vítor Maneta, condemned José Simon to a year in prison for each crime, which resulted in the legal height of a year and six months, suspended sentence for the same period, the defendant's condition to pay CAIN, we next 30 days, the value of 250 euros, more interest, money given as proven involved in crime.
The Collective has not proven as most illegalities pointed to the defendant and contained the order for MP's accusation, who held that the defendant, who was president of the institution for thirteen years, and between 2010 and March 2013, took "on its own initiative" management actions that "seriously harmed and patrimonially the institution" with the goal of your "personal benefit or their family members", with money CAIN, no valor global de 25.000 euros”.
The court only sentenced former president of the IPSS, to have paid an administrative offense, through donation to Mértola Fire, where half the value, those 250 euros, It was attributed to a third person.
Maneta Victor was highly caustic with MP and PJ, saying that the prosecution "does not deserve a worthy research of the name. The work of PJ boils down to an Excel sheet that does not respond to anything. This is an example of what should not be an investigation ", It struck the magistrate. The decision of the Collective is subject to appeal, the next thirty days.
Joseph Simon was president of Santana Parish Council of Cambas, Mértola county councilor and without Pelouro the Municipality of Mértola, elected by the CDU. In 2013, was head of list to the House of Santa Marta de Penaguião, Vila Real county, also lists the Coalition.
Autumn case
In July 2016, the Support Center for the Elderly Moreanes and Joseph Simon, as President of the same, They were convicted of tax fraud crime against Social Security, for acts performed in 2010 and 2011 and payment of civil damages to the same institution. The CAIN sentenced to pay a fine of 1.000 euros and then-President a 960 and both euros in compensation 4.652 euros.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
