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According to Expresso, the Portuguese authorities have already received the case of Duarte Lima, handed over by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice.
“The reception of the request for the transmission of the aforementioned criminal proceeding by the Brazilian authorities was very recently confirmed by the Attorney General’s Office. The handling of the international transmission of procedures is regulated by articles 79 and following of Law 144/99 of August 31 ”, the newspaper quotes this Wednesday, October 7.
In July of this year, the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice confirmed to Lusa that the case against Duarte Lima, for the murder of the Portuguese Rosalina Ribeiro, was closed in the country, without conviction, indicating that it would be sent to Portugal.
According to the Rio de Janeiro court, the case was sent in June, via a “pendrive, without physical documents”, to the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) of Brazil. After arriving at the PGR facilities in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, the document would be sent to the Ministry of Justice of the South American country, which would forward it to the Attorney General of the Republic of Portugal.
Rosalina Ribeiro, murdered in Brazil in 2009, at the age of 74, a crime of which the former deputy Duarte Lima was accused by the Brazilian justice, was the partner and secretary of the Portuguese millionaire living in the South American country Tomé Feteira (now deceased).
In the process, Duarte Lima was accused of misappropriation of five million euros that allegedly belonged to Rosalina Ribeiro.
In 2019, the Lisbon Criminal Court confirmed the acquittal of Duarte Lima related to the case of appropriation of the five million euros of Tomé Feteira’s fortune.
Duarte Lima is currently serving a prison sentence in the context of the trial of the Patria case (a case extracted from the BPN ‘file’) and was accused in Brazil of the murder of Rosalina Ribeiro, a process that is now being sent to Portugal.
The announcement of the possibility of transferring this process to Portugal was announced in 2019, despite several attempts to avoid it by the defense in Brazil of the former PSD parliamentary leader.
