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On the eve of the courts reopening, prosecutors admit to SOL that most media-related cases, such as those involving Socrates or Salgado, are still behind schedule. Luís Filipe Vieira can be used to convey the idea of competence and agility.
The courts will reopen next week, but it takes months to find out why Socrates’ crimes will be tried; Salgado’s instruction is lasting; Mexia’s accusation too; Isabel dos Santos is partly uncertain and Rui Pinto has almost 50 ‘notable’ witnesses.
November 21 of this year will have been six years since the night that José Sócrates, arrived from Paris, was arrested at the Lisbon airport. Accused of corruption, tax fraud and money laundering, the former prime minister spent ten months in pretrial detention and a few more years in appeals and interviews challenging a judicial process of more than four thousand pages.
During the investigation stage, 229 witnesses and 19 defendants were heard. Over 400 hours of audio recording, with 213 searchable attachments, 480 bank attachments, 141 thematic attachments, and 87 wiretap folders. The logs also contain email seized and logged in a total of 14 million files. Wiretapping was carried out on 69 targets. In the case of former Prime Minister José Sócrates, during the 449 days he was listening, there were more than four thousand hours of recording.
At the end of the instructional debate, which ended in June, the investigating judge, Ivo Rosa, read an order in which he revealed various data on the number of sheets, hours of interrogation and number of attachments, justifying his impossibility of issuing an instructional sentence in ten days or within a reasonable time, so you will not set a date to read the decision of who will go to trial or not. “It is manifestly and humanly impossible to make a just, motivated, free and independent decision in a period as short as ten days. We will not set a date for the reading of the instructional decision, which will be announced in due time, “said Ivo Rosa, on July 3.
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