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Portuguese former prime minister Socrates goes on trial in graft case
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In Portugal, on Thursday 3 July the trial of former Prime Minister José Sócrates was opened. It is a first in the country's history: never a former head of government had yet been tried for corruption. The case, nicknamed "Operation Marquês", is distinguished by the extent of the investigation – more than ten years – and by its media impact. José Sócrates, accused of 22 offences, is the main accused of this river trial which should hear some 650…
Portuguese former prime minister Socrates goes on trial in graft case
Portuguese former Prime Minister Jose Socrates appeared before a court on Thursday on the first day of a long-delayed trial in which he faces charges of corruption that were reinstated after a judge had lifted them four years ago.
The trial of the century in Portugal began this Thursday in a chamber of the Central Criminal Court of Lisbon. Thirty minutes before its beginning, the main defendant in the macro-process for corruption of Operation Marquis, former socialist Prime Minister José Socrates, arrived on the Campus of Justice alone. Nothing to do with his visit 16 years ago, when he was seen as a reformist and dynamic ruler who pulled forward without being intimidated…
The former socialist prime minister is charged, among other things, with corruption, money laundering and tax fraud.
Twelve years after the start of the investigation into Operation Marquis, former Prime Minister José Socrates sits this Thursday on the bench of the defendants. In total, the former socialist leader faces 22 crimes: three of corruption, 13 of money laundering and six of tax fraud. This is the first time that Portugal judges a high political office for corruption. Upon his arrival at the Justice Campus in the midst of a large media display, Socra…
Although José Sócrates emerges as the main figure of the Marques Operation, there is a set of other protagonists with a decisive role in the process. We combine 10 of them and tell him how they are involved. The contents of the Marques Operation's key figures appear first in Journal i.
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