“Portugal is a sea of ​​corruption”, Chega makes a human cord at Banco de Portugal

The leader of the Enough today demanded that Banco de Portugal take responsibility for the flight of banker João Rendeiro abroad and announced that he will present a bill to prevent the situation from happening again.
In a campaign action that started at 12:30 pm with Banco de Portugal, in downtown Lisbon, about 50 sympathizers of Chega made a human cordon in front of the institution, shouting “no more corruption” and showing banners with photos by José Sócrates, Armando Vara and Duarte Lima, which read “Portugal is a sea of ​​corruption”.

On arrival At the venue, the party’s president, André Ventura, made a speech in front of the institution’s door, in which he stated, armed with a megaphone, that Banco de Portugal “deserves the respect” of the Portuguese, but also deserves “criticism”, for “never did what I should have done to prevent episodes like this from happening.”

Then, the party leader entered the building, where he delivered a letter to the institution in which he “demands responsibilities” after former BPP president João Rendeiro fled abroad.

“This institution has a lot of responsibility for what happened, because for years it cleaned up the image of these bankers. (…) Today we want to tell the Court and the Bank of Portugal that they have to start doing their work, that they are not closed institutions, that they answer and must answer to the Portuguese”, said André Ventura to journalists as he left the bank .

In addition to attributing responsibility to the institution and to the Justice, the leader of Chega also stated that the Government has “dirty hands” in this case, considering that the National Strategy against Corruption “has nothing of substantial importance”, and wondering why the executive has not presented “a draft law to avoid situations like this”.

Ventura announced that Chega will present a bill in the Assembly of the Republic that will propose that an accused “may be placed in preventive detention, in order to avoid the risk of flight”, when he is suspected of “involvement in highly organized activity or economic and financial crimes” and has “heritage in areas of difficult access to the financial or justice system.”

According to the party president, the diploma — which has not yet entered Parliament — will also to propose that, in “cases of economic and financial crime, organized or with international connections”, there may be “an early start of serving a sentence or entry into a prison” when someone is sentenced in the first instance to a sentence of more than five years imprisonment.

“We are open to negotiation. The PSD, the PS, can propose changes to our project — it is certainly not a perfect project — but we give a signal that the Justice has to improve its functioning in cases like this”, he indicated.

The former president of Banco Privado Português (BPP) João Rendeiro was sentenced on September 28 to three years and six months in prison, in a process for crimes of qualified fraud .

Although he was convicted, Rendeiro had a passport and went abroad before the execution of the sentence, informing, however, that he does not intend to return .

The former president of Banco Privado Português (BPP) was only subject to the term of identity and residence, not having been considered to be at risk

The collapse of BPP, a bank dedicated to the management of wealth, took place in 2010, after the BPN case and preceding other scandals in Portuguese banking.

The BPP originated several lawsuits the judicial ones, involving crimes of qualified fraud, falsification of documents and computer forgery, as well as a process related to fines imposed by the banking supervisory authorities.

With LUSA Agency

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