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The Director General of the Directorate General for Judicial Policy has resigned after the controversy with the designated prosecutor of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Miguel Romão presented his resignation to the minister this Monday morning, after Francisca Van Dunem affirmed that the services of the General Directorate were responsible for false information about José Guerra’s curriculum in a letter sent to the Council of the European Union.
INTERNATIONAL JURY ELECTED ANA MENDES DE ALMEIDA FOR THE OFFICE
Among the three Portuguese candidates for the position of European Prosecutor, Ana Mendes de Almeida took first place in the selection of the International Selection Committee, which evaluated the resumes and interviews of the candidates.
However, the magistrate would ultimately not be elected. The position was held by José Guerra – runner-up – thanks to the direct intervention of the Portuguese government.
JUSTIFIED EXECUTIVE DECISION WITH FALSE INFORMATION
In a letter to which SIC had access, sent to the Council of the European Union in November last year, the Executive justifies the change with information that is not true.
Guerra presents himself as Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, the highest category of the Public Ministry, but in fact the magistrate has not yet arrived. The error is repeated six times throughout the document.
In addition to José Guerra’s international experience, especially as a member of Eurojust, the Government’s letter delivered to the Secretary General of the Council through the Portuguese ambassador to the European Union praises the work of the magistrate in Portugal, but there are also erroneous elements here.
It is said that the Prosecutor’s Office directed section 9 of the DIAP, identified as the largest national agency for combating economic and financial crime when, in reality, It is the DCIAP, where Guerra has never worked, which investigates the most complex cases of this type of crime.
There is also a third false information in the letter, when it says that José Guerra had a position of investigative and accusatory leadership in the so-called UGT process. The case, already over 20 years old, which put Torres Couto on the bench, he was actually investigated by three other prosecutors, who drew up the accusation. Guerra was only the magistrate who was present at the trial, as confirmed by the SIC itself.
JOSÉ GUERRA GUARANTEES THAT HE HAS NO LIABILITY IN THE DRAFTING OF THE LETTER
Speaking on the phone, José Guerra guarantees that he had no responsibility in the writing of this letter and says that the wrong references they can only be lapses They don’t add or remove anything to your resume, which is public.
