Nelson Morais

For suspect the practice of a wide range of crimes, the Judicial Police (PJ) yesterday conducted searches of homes and businesses of the companies responsible and involved in transactions of two buildings of CTT, in Coimbra and Lisbon five years ago. The steps were taken as part of an investigation opened in 2005, which remained mild in light of the reference to the recent bastonário of the Bar to the sale of the property of Coimbra.

In a controversial interview on 25 January this year, Anthony Marino and Pinto recalled that the building was sold twice on the same day and rendera five million euros to the group TCN to warn of the need to close ranks against corruption. Days later, the Central Department of Criminal Research and Action (DIAP) from Lisbon gave new impetus to the investigation "if CTT", which refers to the period in which the public company was chaired by Carlos Horta e Costa.

Dozens of Operational Research Center of the Directorate of Corruption and Economic Crime and Financial irromperam yesterday morning, the premises of Demagre (TCN), Espirito Santo Financial Assets (ESAF), and Fernando Mendes Health SA, Lisbon, which led documents and hard drives of computers. There also searching the Health Unit of Coimbra, that the last SA created and installed in the building sold by the Post this city and the headquarters of the Association Fernao Mendes Pinto, in Montemor-o-Velho. According found the JN, the operation included searches of homes and businesses in Coimbra a protagonist of the business that, until now, had not been involved in the investigation - Carlos Godinho, militant of the PSD with businesses in the property and automobile sectors.

From out of the operation was the councillor and chairman of PS / Coimbra, Luis Vilar. This has already been the target of police searches, an investigation led by PJ Coimbra, which involved several suspects business, including the sale of the property of CTT in Coimbra.

The TCN have guaranteed of Louis Vilar, its consultant, and Carlos Godinho a portfolio of tenants for the building, which allowed, the same day March 20, 2003, the CTT buy it, for 14.8 million euros, and sell it to the ESAF, for 20 million. Five years after the two transactions, PJ demand follows a trail that five million euros of profit, for suspect that may have been used in the practice of crimes of corruption, trafficking of influences, economic participation in business and administration harmful.

Among the tenants of the building that was huge for Post are ... CTT themselves, which only came to occupy a part and had to rent another property. They are also tenants of the Unit of Health Coimbra, the Association of Computing Center and the Administrative and Fiscal Court of Coimbra. The installation of the latter, for example, was decided by the government of Barroso and costs 20 thousand euros monthly to the State.

The case of Lisbon relates to a building of 21 storeys on Avenue of the Republic. The TCN bought the property for CTT by 12.5 million, but investors had already Englishmen who buy them by 26 million. According stated then the president of TCN, Julio Macedo, a supposed representative of the British that it will even last a cheque of 12.5 million. How had no coverage, Macedo said Tuesday agreed with the PTTs that if they could sell the building for more than 12.5 million, split the difference with the public company. Macedo said after the building was sold by the same 12.5 million, and that Demagre nothing gained.