Luís Carito, vice-president of the Portimão City Council, councilor Jorge Campos, the administrator of Portimão Urbis Lélio Branca, and two people linked to the Cidade do Cinema project were arrested today by the Judiciary Police, as part of ongoing investigations in that municipality. , found the Sul Informação.
A well-placed source said that the remaining two detainees are Luis Varela Marreiros, chairman of the Board of Directors of Picture Portugal, and also Artur Curado, also a member of the board of the same company.
Remember that both were in April in India, with the approval of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Paulo Portas, sign a protocol with an Indian production company that provided for the production of films from that country in Portugal and the opening of an office in Portimão.
The same source was unable to specify whether the five people were only detained for questioning or even retired to jail.
However, the searches of the Judiciary Police that are morning took place in the offices Luís Carito and Jorge Campos, leading to the seizure of documents and computers, were also extended to the homes of the two councilors and to the offices of Portimão Urbis.
This afternoon, the Municipality of Portimão confirmed, in a statement, that «two councilors of this municipality, Luís Carito and Jorge Campos, were subject, this morning, to procedural steps involving searches of the Judiciary Police, in the municipality's premises» .
According to the information made available and referred to by the City Council's clarification, these steps are related to "a process that is under court and that originated in anonymous complaints, made in 2011, involving the business activity of Portimão Urbis EM".
To what Sul Informação he learned from various sources that the investigation will be linked to the process of installing the so-called «City of Cinema» in Portimão.
The PJ's investigations into the activities of the municipal company Portimão Urbis, where Luís Carito and Jorge Campos are, respectively, president and vice-president of the General Assembly on behalf of the Chamber, date back to 2012, having already made a previous search of the municipality's facilities. .
The board of the PJ of Faro reserved for tomorrow any clarifications on the steps in progress at the Portimão Chamber.
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