Detained former Portuguese prime minister Socrates by corruptionP

The former socialist prime minister of Portugal Jose Socrates was arrested on the night of Friday for his alleged involvement in a case of tax fraud, money laundering, counterfeiting documentary and corruption, as has been reported by the Attorney General of the Republic.

The problems of the previous prime minister with the justice were unveiled by the magazine Saturday last July in relation to the operation Montebranco, also of money laundering. In this operation was arrested and taken to declare Ricardo Salgado,maximum responsible for the business of the Espirito Santo. However, the attorney general denied then that was investigating to Socrates. For this reason, now in its statement, said that his detention has nothing to do with the operation of July, and that the investigation is "banking, movements and transfers of money without justification known and legally admissible".

Socrates ruled with absolute majority since 2005. Enjoyed the boom of the economy, but fell with its explosion and crisis in 2011, nothing more sign the arrival of the troika - representatives of the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and the European Commission - in order to receive some 80,000 million euros for the rescue of the country. According to the authors of the book The last banker, Socrates had consulted only a person with the convenience of calling the troika: the top dog of Espirito Santo, Ricardo Salgado.

When the July 31, the magazine Saturday unveiled its involvement in the operation Montebranco together to Salgado, Socrates denied absolute and quietly, because who has nothing has nothing to fear, said then. The research focused on his flat in Paris, who he said was the result of a family inheritance as well as flats in Lisbon. Commentator from two years ago in the public television RTP, boasted he had herded there stated: "I have a single bank account for over 25 years; i never had actions or foreign accounts. The first thing I did when i got out of the Government was to call for a credit to my bank".

The weekly Sun (Angolan property), who was the one who revealed the news, he pointed out that Socrates was already in 2010, still being prime minister - a fortune of 20 million euros in the Swiss bank UBS, which brought to Portugal in that year, the shelter of the extraordinary regime of regularization tax that their own Government i think. That money came through an offshore company of his friend now also arrested, Santos Silva. With that autoregularizacion, Socrates only pay 5% tax. The money was deposited in the BES, the bank of his friend Salgado.

The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic clarified in the middle of the afternoon that the detention of Socrates has to do with a communication on the banking sector "made the Central Department of Criminal Investigation and Action (DCIAP) in compliance with the law on the prevention and suppression of the bleaching of capital". This event is produced in Portugal a week after the operation Maze, the case of visa gold that are granted to foreigners from outside that invest in the country more than 500,000 euros. In this case has resigned the minister of the Interior of the current Government Miguel Macedo, although he emphasized that he has nothing to do with the case. Friends and junior Macedo if that were implicated and arrested.