Socrates interviews can prevent release from prison – Daily News – Lisbon

José Sócrates will be the only defendant Operation Marquis process to get another three months on remand or as your friend Carlos Santos Silva, goes home? After the decision to put the latter accused under house arrest, the expectations of José Sócrates point in the same direction. However, the Public Prosecutor (MP) Rosario Teixeira has claimed that the statements that Socrates has done, from the string of Évora, the media have as effect the conditioning and the “spontaneity of the statements” intended for research, adding that is before “continued activity of disturbance.” The judge has until June 9 to decide.

The difference in dates between the reviews of the preventive arrest of Jose Socrates and Carlos Santos Silva explained by the fact that on 24 February, Carlos Alexandre having renewed probation Silva Santos, while at the same time gave ten days to the defense of Socrates to rule on new facts brought by the MP to the process. Hence, even as indicated by the Supreme Judicial Council in recent days, the last revision just been formally made on 9 March.

Thus, the judge will have to rule until June 9. And this will only happen after the public prosecutor has given its opinion. In the case of Carlos Santos Silva, the prosecutor considered that the danger of escape and disturbance of the investigation which it had been allocated were attenuated with the course of the investigation, especially with the documents and testimony already gathered in the process. Therefore, Rosario Teixeira promoted the replacement for preventive house arrest with electronic bracelet.

In the case of José Sócrates, after the Lisbon Court of Relationship have removed the danger of escape, while retaining the disturbance research, will be around this that everything is going to happen.

You see, to the last review, the prosecutor understood that one of Socrates’ assumptions disrupt the inquiry held with the eventual capacity of the former Prime Minister, in collusion with Santos Silva, forging documents to justify the financial movements from the second to the first. “For all, the defendants [Silva and Socrates Santos] meet and produce a contractual justification for the measure of convenience, since the property lease in Partis to the amount of compensation of the employment contract signed with the driver,” wrote attorney in response to a Socrates appeal to the Court of Appeal of Lisbon.