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Rui Moreira was accused by the Porto Regional Criminal Investigation and Action Department of having committed, “in material responsibility and consummately”, a crime of embezzlement in the Selminho case. The Public Ministry demands that the mayor of Porto also be sentenced to the loss of the mayor’s mandate, according to Jornal de Notícias.
Rui Moreira claims that the accusation is completely unfounded and unfounded. “In fact, the facts that are now used are exactly the same that had already been analyzed by the Public Ministry, which in 2017 considered that there was no illegality in my behavior and closed the case,” Rui Moreira told Expresso.
The mayor assures that “the accusation is very strange, both in terms of content and when discounting it”, but that he is “absolutely calm” and will not stop doing everything possible so that all responsibilities are determined. “Having barely had access to the case yesterday and having scheduled a public meeting of the municipal executive for Monday, presiding over this collegiate body, it is at that time, in the period prior to the agenda, that I will make a more in-depth statement on the case. They will understand that, at this moment, they do not anticipate what I should say then and in the right place, “adds the mayor.
For the Public Ministry, when trying to license a building on land in the Arrábida escarpment, owned by the Moreira family since 2011, the mayor of Oporto, instead of “acting impartially and defending the public interest”, intended to “benefit the company ”of which he was a partner and the family.
In 2019, before the last municipalities, the property services of the Chamber of Porto discovered that part of the land of the Selminho real estate was, after all, the municipality, with the Court of Justice of Porto giving reason to the municipality in the partial claim of the property.
At that time, Rui Moreira said that the judicial decision was important to end the “atmosphere of gossip in the city,” noting that it was with him as mayor that the Porto City Council discovered the dual ownership of part of the land. and took the case to court against the family’s real estate.
