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The Porto City Council revealed that updates to the construction brochures and records related to the land in Arrábida registered as Selminho’s property have already been completed and considered municipal property by the court. Therefore, the plots are already part of the heritage of the Autarchy.
The municipality says, in response to Lusa, that having issued the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (STJ) in June on the ownership of that land in the Arrábida escarpment, the municipality recovered the property for itself, having already done so. and “the respective updates of the construction books and records” were completed.
At the center of the dispute is a piece of land on the Duero escarpment, sold by a couple who registered it for adverse possession to the Selminho real estate agency in 2001.
In May of this year, the Supreme Court confirmed the decision of the Porto Court of Appeal, dismissing the appeals filed in December by Selminho, a real estate agent for the family of the mayor of Porto, and by the couple who in 2001 sold the land to the company. in Arrábida.
In October 2019, the Porto Appeal Court had already confirmed the decision of the first instance that in January of that year it judged the deed of sale of 2,260 square meters in Arrábida by a couple to Selminho, “null and void”, ordering the ” cancellation “of registration in the Property Registry.
On Monday, in reaction to the accusation of embezzlement imputed by the Public Ministry (MP) to the mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira, within the Selminho process, BE indicated that, “regardless of the result” of the criminal process, “The agreement that provides for compensation of more than one million euros to be paid by the municipality to the company has not yet been resolved.
“The situation resulting from the agreement ratified by a decision of the Administrative and Tax Court (TAF) of July 10, 2014 between Selminho and the municipality of Porto, which provides for compensation by the municipality for an amount greater than one million, has not yet been established. It has been resolved. euros, ”said the blockers.
The BE considers essential “the procedural initiative of the MP” for the review of the sentence, which “despite the diligence of the BE municipal elected deputies, has not yet materialized.”
However, the Municipality explained that the Supreme Court ruling violates the essential assumption of the object of the arbitration commitment of the agreement signed between the parties, so that “all Selminho’s requests were irremediably damaged, so the transaction and the respective commitment cannot be executed. arbitration “.
In the 2014 agreement, in Rui Moreira’s first term as mayor, the municipality undertook to return the construction capacity to that land, in Calçada da Arrábida, within the framework of the current revision of the Municipal Master Plan (PDM), or resort to a court to define a possible compensation to the real estate.
The actions of Rui Moreira under this agreement led the Public Ministry to accuse the mayor of a crime of wrongdoing for violating the duties of legality and impartiality in the decisions taken in the handling of a conflict that the municipality opposed, in court. to Selminho, his family’s real estate.
On Monday, at the meeting of the municipal executive, Rui Moreira, announced that he will request “immediately” the instruction of the process in which he is accused of embezzlement, highlighting that the “unreasonable” accusation in the Selminho case will not separate him from the exercise of functions.
For the mayor, the accusation, based on “completely false” conclusions, intends to tarnish his good name and steal his honor, “appearing, objectively, in content, time and purpose, as part of a partisan political fight.”
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