(Last hour) Beja: Moura retired police, convicted of embezzlement.
A retired police, who was attached to the Police Moura, was today convicted of embezzlement, forgery and illegal possession of weapons. Applied a penalty of 7 years in prison, suspended and reduced, by cluster 3 years and 6 months.
An agent of the Public Security Police (PSP) retired, attached to Moura Police District Command Beja, He was sentenced today in the Court of Beja, to seven years in prison for two counts of embezzlement, a document forgery and a prohibited weapon detention.
Will be released as the president of the Collective of Judges, applied in legal height 3 years and six months in prison, suspended for the same period. The former agent was also acquitted of two counts of embezzlement. All weapons that have been seized are forfeited to the State, PSP being delivered to be destroyed.
António Monteiro, 60 year old, He seized two rifles and two pistols that had been delivered to the station by carriers or their family members that wanted to deliver for slaughter, but that made their.
In the trial stage, the accused had justified his conduct in the Collective, chaired by Judge Victor Maneta that was as gun collector, instead of rececionaram weapons of citizens, "Era practice of colleagues and superiors offer if wanted to buy. There were some offered by the people ", finished. António Monteiro argued that such a practice "was a normal situation. No one was opposed to it ", pointing colleagues and superiors, as authors of the same behavior.
The case was investigated by the Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DIAP) Évora, You can reach superiors PSP, as the deputy prosecutor told extract certificates to institute criminal proceedings intended to "determine" the eventual practice of "denial of justice crime and malfeasance", the possible internal concealment of the facts that the agent was suspected.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
