In Portugal everything is for sale, including obviously “favorable” court decisions.
A Public Finance Jurist at the Administrative and Fiscal Court of Porto asked for ‘kickbacks’ worth thousands of euros, in exchange for letting the State lose court cases.
Imagine that this jurist was one of those responsible for defending the Tax Authority’s positions in cases brought by taxpayers! Wow! Portugal at is best!
The following article is a translation (mostly MT). You can find the link to the original website at the end of it.
This Sunday, Jornal de Notícias (JN) headlines the story of a Finance jurist, named António Rocha, who worked at the Administrative and Fiscal Court of Porto, and who was heard asking for ‘gloves’ worth 100 thousand euros.
The recipient of the request for ‘gloves’ was, reveals JN, a businessman in the construction industry, Jorge Cerqueira, who will be close to the former mayor of Matosinhos, Narciso Miranda.
Data from the investigation, which is still being carried out by the Department of Investigation and Criminal Action (DIAP) of the Public Ministry of Porto, indicates that businessman Jorge Cerqueira came forward with an amount of four to five thousand euros in notes to jurist António Rocha.