2024-01-05 18:22:00
Antnio Costa, president of Portugal since 2015 until 2023
The current acting prime minister supported the approval of a law that would benefit a company
05 ene 2024 . Updated at 5:22 p.m.
The investigation opened to the current acting prime minister of Portugal, Antnio Costa, focuses on suspicions of an alleged crime of prevarication for the approval of a law that would benefit a company, the Portuguese newspaper revealed this Friday Observer.
According to this medium, the investigation into Costa, who resigned on November 7 After knowing the existence of this process, it is due to the new Legal Regime of Urbanization and Building approved in the Council of Ministers on October 19, 2023. Before this Council, the then Minister of Infrastructure, Joo Galamba, negotiated the details of the new law with others involved in the case, including an administrator of the Start Campus companywhich could have benefited. The new regime would allow Start Campus to move forward with the construction of a data center in Sines without the need for an urban planning licensing process.
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These negotiations are included in the wiretaps of the case, in which one of those involved says that he had been with Costa for four hours watching this and that he seemed completely enthusiastic. The Prosecutor’s Office considers that the Costa mentioned in the conversation is the first minister and that this refers to the new urbanization law.
The call Operation Influencer was unveiled on October 7 and includes irregularities in projects lithium and hydrogen and in the construction of a data centerThe Prosecutor’s Office then reported that several suspects spoke of Costa’s involvement in the case for unblocking procedures and that these allegations would be analyzed autonomously in an investigation carried out by the Supreme Court of Justice.
That same day, Costa presented his resignation – although he assured that he had not committed any illegal acts – and later the president of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, decided to call early elections for March 10, 2024.
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So far, there has been no no official information about the crimes for which the current acting prime minister is being investigated.Costa will participate this Friday night in the opening of the 24th National Congress of the Socialist Party, which is held after having passed the baton of leadership of the party to Pedro Nuno Santos, the new general secretary.
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