[ad_1]
The Government has already sent to Parliament the list of the names of the debtors of Novo Banco that did not appear in the audit, the Deloitte report on the 18 years of management of BES / Novo Banco that was delivered to Parliament and that concluded with some net losses of 4,042 million euros. in 283 operations.
The Left Block denounced that the report was purged of important information related to the entities involved in credit operations and that, despite not containing names or other sensitive information, its classification as ‘confidential’ prevents its disclosure. The blockers asked the Executive to send the complete version of the special audit report to the Assembly of the Republic, including the list of coded entities that arrived at Parliament on Thursday, September 3, the President of the Budget revealed to the Economic Journal (JE). and Finance (COF).
“All COF deputies have already received an email informing them that the Government delivered today to the President of the Assembly of the Republic and to the PAR the COF services the key that allows identifying the names of the debtors that are encoded in the Deloitte audit “, said. JE Filipe Neto Brandão,
BE maintains that Parliament must have all the information to analyze what happened, including the names of the debtors and companies whose debts are forgiven or restructured. Information that does not appear in the report that the Government sent to Parliament, as well as the individual values of the losses identified in the audit.
More than a year after being requested, the special audit of Novo Banco was delivered, earlier this week, by Deloitte to the Government, which forwarded it to various institutions, including the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) and Parliament . . As announced by the EB on Tuesday, September 1, the audit continued with the seal of confidentiality, which forced the Assembly of the Republic to clean up the report of what may be protected by the duty of secrecy in order to make public the document.
On Tuesday, the Block warned that the audit report refers in an abstract way to the debtors that appear in the tables numbered by ‘debtor’ or by ‘economic group’ with an associated number, and therefore for the same reason. day requested “immediate public disclosure of the special audit report to Novo Banco, in its current version.”
In the request they sent to the Budget and Finance Committee, which the Government followed up today with the delivery of the list of names of the debtors to Parliament, Mariana Mortágua argued that there is no reason for the version of the audit report that The Government has sent it to the Assembly.
In the letter accompanying the sending of the audit to Parliament, the ministry chaired by João Leão informed the deputies that the report contains “information subject to bank secrecy” that “binds the recipients of the report to the duty of reserve” provided for in the General System of Institutions. Credit and financial companies. One of the reasons that normally justify the request for confidentiality of the information contained in the audit reports of credit operations is that resulting from the public disclosure of the names of creditors.
MPs want to know what they can (and cannot) reveal
Deloitte’s 18-year audit of BES / Novo Banco’s management will be released after the legal services of Parliament and the Government indicate what is confidential and what information can be disqualified. It is intended to make the report public without the information considered confidential, which obliges the deputies to comply with the rules of bank secrecy.
The audit of the management acts of BES / Novo Banco between 2000 and 2018 reached Parliament on Tuesday, sent by the Government, in a document of about 400 pages and classified as “confidential”. COF President Filipe Neto Brandão now wants to know what members can and cannot reveal in Deloitte’s final report.
The Socialist deputy has already sent the Deloitte documentation to the Parliament’s legal services to define information that is considered confidential under bank secrecy and also asked the Government to identify confidential data. Objective: elements protected by the confidentiality of the version that will be made public.
“I signed an order to send the Deloitte documentation to the legal services that support COF to analyze what is probably considered confidential under bank secrecy, so that it can disqualify everything else,” Filipe Neto Brandão told Jornal Economico. adding that the aim is to make public the audit of Parliament’s website, in the short term, after removing the parts that can be considered confidential.
To do this, he explains, the Government was also asked, through the Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Duarte Cordeiro, to proceed with the identification of confidential matters, commenting on those that it considers sensitive or covered by confidentiality. The president of the COF expects to complete this process “soon”, considering that the public version of the audit will be available before the hearing scheduled with the executive president of Novo Banco, António Ramalho, for September 15.
According to Neto Brandão, the deputies have full access to the document, but through computers that have software for the protection of classified digital information, which tracks the query.
[ad_2]
