Rhodes
10-01-09, 04:13 PM
Translation by google, possibly not the best.
Ten persons indicted for fraud and forgery of documents in the case of submarines
01.10.2009 - 17h45 Lusa
The prosecutor accused the defendants now ten co-authored by forgery and fraud in the voting process known as "submarines/cross-bill ."
A note from the Central Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution (DCIAP) added that it was also deduced by the MP "a civil claim for damages, amounting to almost 34 million euros.
"At issue is the conclusion of a contract between the State counterparts Portuguese and German Submarine Consortium and its implementation," says the Central Criminal. During the investigation were made "numerous efforts in Portugal and Germany."
The state with the contractually Portuguese German consortium German Submarine Consortium to buy two submarines in 2004, when Barroso was prime minister, Paulo Portas was Minister of National Defense.
However, the "Daily News" online advances that the ten defendants are "three German citizens related to a business consortium that won the submarines, the Man Ferrostaal, and seven Portuguese managers. According to DN, "the attorneys responsible for the Central Criminal prosecution claim that the defendants be required to provide collateral, which oscillate between 15 thousand and 100 thousand euros."
In turn, MAN Ferrostaal has already assured today that it is "committed" to meet the compensatory measures agreed with the Portuguese Government and that they are "on schedule". In a statement, the German company ensures that "the degree of fulfillment of the matching stands at 63.6 percent, according to the evaluation" of the company.
The document says that the business of submarines the company "not only fulfill their commitments to even beat the same" and "remains committed to the project implementation plan defined as" stressing "do not have any doubts as to whether the total contract Counterpart.
The contract for the construction of submarines, worth 800 million euros was signed in April 2004 by then-Defense Minister Paulo Portas GSC with the consortium of Thyssen Krupp - which, according to the Government, presented the best proposal in terms of price, compensating and operating conditions. The consortium chosen in competition, the French DCNI, appealed the decision, claiming the suspension of the process, but the Supreme Administrative Court eventually to account for the Portuguese government.
Three years later appeared in the press, the first reports on investigations of the Judicial Police (PJ) to track 24 million euros that the German consortium will be transferred under the deal for a company of Grupo Espirito Santo (GES) based in the United Kingdom, Escom Uk. The research, reported the printing press, had been triggered by telephone conversations, allegedly intercepted by PJ, between the then Minister of National Defense and former financial director of the CDS-PP and Kevin Rudd was to investigate suspicions of funding the CDS-PP. The subject returned to the front pages on Tuesday morning with news about the steps taken by the Central Criminal law firms in the case.
Original here: http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1403312&idCanal=62
So the story goes like this, after the elections on sunday, the "old" news about the purchase and with possibly some "lateral"/ilegal business of the two new subs for portugal in 2004, surfaced again!
Aparantly sereval documents about the bought are missing and 30 million euros also!
Ten persons indicted for fraud and forgery of documents in the case of submarines
01.10.2009 - 17h45 Lusa
The prosecutor accused the defendants now ten co-authored by forgery and fraud in the voting process known as "submarines/cross-bill ."
A note from the Central Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution (DCIAP) added that it was also deduced by the MP "a civil claim for damages, amounting to almost 34 million euros.
"At issue is the conclusion of a contract between the State counterparts Portuguese and German Submarine Consortium and its implementation," says the Central Criminal. During the investigation were made "numerous efforts in Portugal and Germany."
The state with the contractually Portuguese German consortium German Submarine Consortium to buy two submarines in 2004, when Barroso was prime minister, Paulo Portas was Minister of National Defense.
However, the "Daily News" online advances that the ten defendants are "three German citizens related to a business consortium that won the submarines, the Man Ferrostaal, and seven Portuguese managers. According to DN, "the attorneys responsible for the Central Criminal prosecution claim that the defendants be required to provide collateral, which oscillate between 15 thousand and 100 thousand euros."
In turn, MAN Ferrostaal has already assured today that it is "committed" to meet the compensatory measures agreed with the Portuguese Government and that they are "on schedule". In a statement, the German company ensures that "the degree of fulfillment of the matching stands at 63.6 percent, according to the evaluation" of the company.
The document says that the business of submarines the company "not only fulfill their commitments to even beat the same" and "remains committed to the project implementation plan defined as" stressing "do not have any doubts as to whether the total contract Counterpart.
The contract for the construction of submarines, worth 800 million euros was signed in April 2004 by then-Defense Minister Paulo Portas GSC with the consortium of Thyssen Krupp - which, according to the Government, presented the best proposal in terms of price, compensating and operating conditions. The consortium chosen in competition, the French DCNI, appealed the decision, claiming the suspension of the process, but the Supreme Administrative Court eventually to account for the Portuguese government.
Three years later appeared in the press, the first reports on investigations of the Judicial Police (PJ) to track 24 million euros that the German consortium will be transferred under the deal for a company of Grupo Espirito Santo (GES) based in the United Kingdom, Escom Uk. The research, reported the printing press, had been triggered by telephone conversations, allegedly intercepted by PJ, between the then Minister of National Defense and former financial director of the CDS-PP and Kevin Rudd was to investigate suspicions of funding the CDS-PP. The subject returned to the front pages on Tuesday morning with news about the steps taken by the Central Criminal law firms in the case.
Original here: http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1403312&idCanal=62
So the story goes like this, after the elections on sunday, the "old" news about the purchase and with possibly some "lateral"/ilegal business of the two new subs for portugal in 2004, surfaced again!
Aparantly sereval documents about the bought are missing and 30 million euros also!