Sócrates alleges the absence of a draw in the Lisbon List and may delay Operation Marquês | Operation Marquis
Former Prime Minister José Sócrates requested the nullity of the distribution at the Lisbon Court of Appeal of the ruling on the instructional decision of Judge Ivo Rosa in the Operation Marquês process, alleging that appeal had not identified a judge’s draw.
In a request addressed to the presiding judge of the 9th section of the Lisbon Court of Appeal, Socrates’ lawyer, Pedro delille, states that the process was “purely and simply” to the assistant judge, “without precedence of the lottery and chosen legally required”. Socrates’ lawyer argues in the document that Lusa had access to that legal procedures were “ignored, despised”.
In justifying the nullity request, Pedro Delille points out, namely, that there are no other laws to recognize distribution irregularities, the “absence of the Public Ministry or distribution lawyer” and “the absence of the Public Ministry or documentation mission” that formalizes and process distribution. Thus, it is understood that the protection of the Lisbon rules of jurisdiction of the court (in accordance with the protection of the Lisbon rules of jurisdiction of the court) is understood as the protection of Lisbon justice since then and all acts of protection of jurisdiction. of the court.
The authoritarian asks that the judicial panel, defending that it be identified and identified as “from the entire collective” and defending “from the entire collective its impartiality” and defending “from the entire collective” ” chaired by the judge Maria José Caçador .
In the document, Pedro Delille, the declaration of nullity of this da and in suspension will not happen, asks the judges to “excuse dignese case in process in this process” or, “not doing so, deign to immediately determine to a decision its remittance with this request to the Supreme Court of Justice for decision of (judge) refusal incident”.
This request, advanced by Visão magazine, may further delay the Operação Marquês process, namely the assessment of the preliminary ruling by Judge Ivo Rosa by the Lisbon Court of Appeal, on appeal.
Of the 189 crimes in the prosecution of the case, a determined instructive decision that only 17 go to trial, and none of them of operation of them, having the Public Ministry to follow the intention of, the same with José Sócra. Of the 2 defendants, of which 19 individuals and 8 people, Ivo Rosa to instruct former prime minister José Sócrates, his friend and businessman Carlos Santos Silva, former minister Armando Vara, former banker Ricardo Salgado.
Socrates was accused in 2017, 2017, of 31 crimes, designated in the passive decision process, money laundering and decision documents, falsification of tax fraud, but in 2021, judge Ivo Rosa decided to acquit Sócrates of 25 of the 31 crimes, pronouncing him on trial for three crimes of money laundering and three of forgery of documents.