Public Prosecutor's prosecutor dispensed with the deadlines of appeal and became final the judgment that acquitted the defendants of criminal association crimes, human trafficking and money laundering.
The request of magistrate Jaquelina Mendes filed the central unit of the Beja County about 15,00 hours of Monday, thus exhausting the possibilities of entering any appeal against the court decision. So, The revision of the Court's determination and also the filing of new appeals no longer.
On the very day when the president of the Judges collecting the decision, The defense lawyers of the defendants, including the one who was sentenced to a penalty of fine for detention of a prohibited weapon, had admitted with requirements to exercise the right to dispense with the deadlines of appeal, in order to accelerate as definitively the decision of the judges.
It is recalled that last Friday a collective of judges of the Court of Beja, acquitted the defendants, Eighteen people, All foreign originating from Eastern European, It's a company, who were accused of criminal association crimes, human trafficking and money laundering. The only convict was Ionut Biuca, by prohibited weapon detention crime, in a penalty of 200 fine days at the rate of 6 euros / day, total no 1.200 euros.
This was an outcome considered natural, After the return of the occurred to 16 December 2024, when the prosecutor's prosecutor (MP), Jacqueline Mendes, defended in the final allegations that the imputed facts were not proven.
This process was triggered in November 2022 by inspectors of the National Unit of Counterterrorism (UNCT), under the jurisdiction of the Department of Investigation and Criminal Action (DIAP) Lisbon, in the counties of Cuba, Beja and Ferreira do Alentejo and which led to the detention of 35 people and later the constitution of 55 Defendants.
The process was separate and there are still thirty -two defendants left, awaiting the decision of the Judges of the Court of Appeal of Évora, in light of the appeals presented by the Cuban Public Ministry, that if they are tried, they may benefit from the decision made on Friday afternoon by the Court of Judges of the Court of Beja.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
