The well-known lawyer Daniel Proenca de Carvalho, who for several years was the chief legal representative of José Sócrates, left entirely to the defense of the former Prime Minister. The last two cases where Proenca de Carvalho was attorney José Sócrates, two brought civil proceedings against the newspaper Morning Post , were subestabelecidos earlier this year colleague Joao Araujo, who heads the defense team Socrates in the process known as Marquis Operation .
The initiative to abandon these cases came from Carvalho de Proenca, that belies that this withdrawal is in any way related to the Operation Marquis , which led to the Probation former ruler in late November last year, a process that investigates money laundering suspicions, tax evasion and corruption.
Contacted by PUBLIC after confirming the information with the lawyer João Araújo, Proenca de Carvalho admitted subestabelecido cases of Socrates who had pending. “There was no point being to represent José Sócrates engineer only in these civil proceedings,” explained the reputed lawyer who also holds various management positions in large companies and is currently Chairman of the Cimpor board of directors and the Global Media Group, which owns newspaper Daily News and Journal News and the TSF radio. “Besides these processes have something to do with the life that Jose Socrates engineer had in Paris,” adds Proenca de Carvalho.
About the bugs that are part of Operation Marquis , Proenca de Carvalho admits that the conversations he had with Socrates may appear in the file, but insists they are “irrelevant”. And denies that it was the former prime minister to call her to get a lawyer to defend his then driver, John Perna. “My conversations will be among thousands of tapping with many people. But there will be a unique listening that has to do with the contents of this process, “said the famous attorney.
Contacted by PUBLIC, João Araújo confirms that took over, with colleague Peter Delille, cases of Socrates that They were in the hands of Proenca de Carvalho. “Will this change was originated by Dr. Proenca de Carvalho who understood that it would be more convenient,” says João Araújo. And shoots:.. “This is all connected” refers to cases brought at the beginning of 2013, against 14 journalists from Morning Post In this action, oak Proenca accused the Correio da Morning to create in the public mind the idea that Socrates lived a millionaire life in the French capital “supported by a wealth whose origin at least suspicious, if not illegal.” He insisted that it was “before one of the most intense persecution campaigns and defamatory exerted on a political Portuguese by a media organization. “
The absence of Carvalho de Proenca in the defense of Socrates was the subject of much speculation since the former prime minister was arrested and appeared to defend him an attorney until then unknown to the public. Proenca de Carvalho then told PUBLIC it had not been contacted by former prime minister to represent him saying, however, that the former prime minister remains his client in several other cases – in which the complainant and was not suspected. “I will not give up the proxy José Sócrates in these cases,” then said the lawyer. “Do not we choose customers. . Customers who choose is up to us “, he
At that time omitted, however, a fact that came to be known later: a society that is one of the main partners was representing the driver then Socrates, John Perna, arrested within the same operation. Defending the driver José Socrates came a young lawyer Daniel Bento Alves, who eventually give up the defense after completion of the phase of the first interrogations. The John Leg silence would eventually cost the driver a month in jail, in late December, already with another lawyer, managed to reverse probation under house arrest. In February the coercive measure is lightened again, getting Leg subject only to periodic presentations by the police authorities.
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