Israeli community in Lisbon is unaware of the inquiry about Patrick Drahi and says it is available to collaborate
The Israeli Community of Lisbon (CIL) is unaware of any inquiry into the process of natural affirmation of businessman Patrick Drahi and is available to collaborate with the authorities, “in the public interest of the matter”.
In a statement confirms that, “in 2015, identified a certificate demonstrating the tradition of Portuguese tradition” entrepreneur Patrick Drahi.
In view of “news that will account for an investigation” regarding the naturalization process of Patrick Drahi, the Israeli Community of Lisbon states that “so far it has not been contacted by the authorities for clarification on this, or any other process”.
“Given the public interest of the matter, and because it is necessary to contribute so that there is no doubt about its legality, the CIL informs that next Monday, March 14th, on its own initiative, as authorities”, he says.
In the statement, the CIL considered that the Law of Departure History, which allows the granting of Portuguese nationality, naturalization, and unemployed Sephardic descent, “is a progressive and profoundly humanist law that should not be called into question”.
“Its regularity, however, can and should be improved. Since 2020, the CIL has been presenting proposals so that the Portuguese Nationality Regulation can be clearer, transparent and efficient”, he adds.
On Friday, the Jewish Community of Porto (CJP), whose performance was already being investigated in connection with the process that led to the granting of Portuguese nationality to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, revealed that it would have another naturalization process under investigation, from entrepreneur Patrick Drahi.
The investigation in the context of the Abramovich case, which led to the arrest of the CJP’s religious leader, Rabbi Danieltvak, involved carrying out searches and involves suspicions of several crimes of influence of trafficking, active, document falsification, laundering of specifically capital trafficking, tax fraud on Friday joint criminal statement, the Judiciary Police (PJ) statement and the Public Ministry (MP) statement.
In causes of occurrence of allegations of irregular occurrences, of nationalities that are in processes of irregular occurrences, of nationalities that are in processes of irregular occurrences. Sephardic Jews are Jews from the Iberian Peninsula expelled from Portugal in the 16th century.
In parallel, the Institute of Registries and Notaries (IRN) also announced at the end of January the opening of an inquiry on this matter.