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Júlio Loureiro, a judicial official accused in the e-Toupeira case, will be tried for the crime of passive corruption, but saw the Supreme Court of Justice withdraw six crimes of violation of the secret of justice, 21 of secrecy per employee, nine of improper access and nine for breach of the duty of confidentiality, found JN. The appeal was being examined by the Supreme Court for about a year.
Loureiro had been acquitted by the Central Criminal Investigation Court, but, following an appeal from the Public Ministry (MP), the Lisbon Court sent him to the defendants’ bench. But this official of the Court of Guimarães and former observer of arbitrators was not satisfied with the decision, because he understood that he should not have ruled for illegal acts for which the MP had not appealed.
The judges of the Relação de Lisboa accused him of crimes of personal favor, six of breach of the secrecy of justice, 21 of breach of secrecy by employee, nine of improper access and nine of breach of confidentiality, in addition to passive corruption.
More or MP had appealed only for crimes of corruption and undue obtaining of advantages, asking him to be tried for these crimes. Thus, the defense of the judicial official understood that the decision of the judges is null in relation to the prosecution of all crimes, except those of corruption and undue obtaining of advantages.
It is recalled that in September 2019, the appellants confirmed that Paulo Gonçalves and José Silva were going to trial and pronounced Júlio Loureiro (contrary, in this part, to the decision of the investigating judge, Ana Peres). They also decided to keep the benfiquista SAD out of the trial, as the first instance had already decided.
According to the sentence, later signed by judges Rui Teixeira and Maria Teresa Féria, the The investigation did not present evidence that the crimes allegedly committed by Paulo Gonçalves were known to the incarnate Administration of the SAD., namely, espionage of court proceedings. They consider that the investigation was based on the principle that Paulo Gonçalves acted on behalf of Benfica, without, however, verifying whether the institution was aware of the employee’s actions and whether he consented.
In the end, they concluded that it was also justified in the process that Paulo Gonçalves was only making a “shine” to please the bosses.
Judicial officer José Augusto Silva, a “mole” who accessed the justice system to spy on secret cases, had been indicted for 26 crimes. But Relação began to indict him for 75. There are 49 more crimes of violation of labor secrecy and illegitimate access, which are substantially the same for which he had been accused. Like Paulo Gonçalves, he did not appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.
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