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According to information provided by Jornal de Notícias, which cites sources related to the case, João Paulino filed a lawsuit with the Santarém Court, where he offered to return the missing material from the Tancos warehouse, the object of a robbery in 2017.
According to the same newspaper, the judge of this court, where the case will be judged as of November 3, accepted the request and ordered the Judicial Police to collect the remaining weapons to be returned, consisting of grenades, ammunition and explosives.
It is recalled that the case of the theft of weapons was disclosed by the Army on June 29, 2017 with the indication that it had occurred the day before, with the alleged recovery of the stolen war material that occurred in the region of Chamusca, Santarém, in October . 2017, in an operation that involved the Military Judicial Police (PJM), in collaboration with elements of the GNR of Loulé.
This recovery operation, however, will have been carried out by the PJM in coordination with João Paulino, a former rifleman, and will supposedly have the collusion of the then Defense Minister, Azeredo Lopes, and this case led precisely to his resignation and constitution. accused in the process.
Tancos’ lawsuit has 23 defendants, among them the former Minister of Defense, the former national director of the Military Judicial Police (PJM) Luís Vieira, the former PJM spokesman Vasco Brazão and the former Marinist João Paulino, who according to the Public Ministry was the mastermind of the robberies, which account for a set of crimes ranging from terrorism, criminal association, denial of justice and embezzlement to falsification of documents, influence peddling, abuse of power, reception and detention of a prohibited weapon. .
Azeredo Lopes is charged with the crimes of denial of justice and embezzlement, personal favoritism practiced by an employee, abuse of power and denial of justice, in a process that investigated the theft and the staging of the discovery of the stolen weapons in the warehouses of Tancos.
Nine of the defendants are accused of planning and executing the theft of military material from national warehouses and the remaining 14, among them Azeredo Lopes, who resigned from political office as a result of the process, and the two elements of the PJM, of the staging that was based on the recovery of equipment.
The Public Ministry had requested that all the accused go to trial in the exact terms in which they were accused and Judge Carlos Alexandre agreed.
