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Former Prime Minister Jose Socrates calls “absurd” the charge that have favored the Lena Group. “The statement that would have been an encouragement of Lena Group is not only false, as absurd, unable to resist the comparison of numbers,” the former governor in a letter sent to the socialist Antonio Campos and that SIC had authorization to release .

                     

                          To sustain critical to prosecutors, Socrates declared that “in relative terms, the current government has awarded this group more public works contracts than the socialist government (0.36% in 2012, against 0.25% in 2010, keeping similar this comparison for the years 2013 and 2014 “.

Also in respect of direct awards, Socrates points out that” we find the same relationship (10% of contraction total construction between July 2011 and the present date; 7% between the end of 2008 and June 2011), “adds

In the letter, Socrates took the opportunity to contextualize the thesis on. Lena Group a “smear campaign” with “hints” that “are false, outrageous and absurd.” The former ruler ensures that never had direct or indirect involvement in “none of the alleged contests that have been referenced.” He denies any further “proximity “Joaquim Baroque. Regarding the investigation of the prosecution, Socrates back to accuse the attorney holder case of not having evidence” solid “and not show what’s in the investigation, considers that the” situation that the process is reached simply pathetic “and that” exotic theory “that Carlos Santos Silva, entrepreneur his friend, is the” front “of the millions in Switzerland is” delusional “.

In addition to the usual criticisms of the investigation, the former government now considers that “the current debate on crime policy is dominated by a conservative perspective, more properly reactionary” and that the existing “criminal leaks” to the judicial secrecy “have precisely to do with the emptiness of this process “to” disguise “and to keep stuck” without facts and without evidence. “

Joaquim Rodrigues Baroque, Lena Group administrator, suspected to be a major corrupters of José Sócrates, which was in custody last Friday is expected to return on Wednesday the house where it will await the development of research with electronic bracelet. The administrator is in Caxias Prison Hospital due to a history of heart problems.

Source of the prison service assured the public that the report of the probation officers and electronic surveillance technicians, favorable placing under house arrest, has arrived on Tuesday the judge Carlos Alexandre, the Criminal Court Center in Lisbon.

In order that determined the remand to the entrepreneur, the magistrate noted that the entrepreneur would be under house arrest soon to gather the technical conditions necessary for the installation of monitoring equipment at home the defendant, at the order of the judge in this direction should be formalized on Wednesday. Joaquim Baroque is indicted for crimes of bribery, money laundering and tax fraud.

The businessman was arrested on Wednesday night after searches carried out at the headquarters of the Lena Group, in Quinta da Sardinha in municipality of Leiria, and household. The arrest occurred during Operation Marquis, involving José Sócrates, indicted for the crimes of tax fraud, corruption and money laundering. The former ruler is for five months in custody despite successive actions and arrangements habeas corpus filed by citizens and by itself.