[Trending News] Tutti Frutti? “What I felt I do not want any political enemy”

O Former Minister of Environment and Climate Action Duarte Cordeiro assumed that, after being “targeted and involved” in “Permanent News of Speculation”, he felt a “sense of freedom ” After being unlawful in the Tutti Frutti process and reiterated that “What was concluded in this investigation confirmed everything that was saying“.

Speaking at RTP3's big interview, this Wednesday, Duarte Cordeiro pointed out that the “People who were aimed at this process did not need to wait eight years” And he indicated that the prosecutor should have a spokesman to clarify false news.

“In an initial moment, the Public Prosecution Service decides to employ means with size in an investigation process, makes widespread and extended searches by multiplying the targets in the investigation processes. Then we will check, in what is the accusation, and the accusation rate is manifestly reduced, and is reduced enough to not generate speculation and expectation that is created at the initial moment“accused the former vice-mayor of the Chamber of Lisbon.

Duarte Cordeiro asked to reflect on the performance of the MP who said “did not manage the means properly“Throughout the process and pointed out that”silence allows for a climate of permanent suspicion which then impairs the image of the prosecutor “.

Due to the investigations, the socialist leader stressed: “I never dismissed myself in any functions,” but said that “There is an attempt to take legitimacy to those who are being investigated“.

Although it has never been “a defendant”, nor has it never been “heard in eight years,” he revealed that it has been available over that time “to be heard” and confessed: “What I felt I do not want any political enemy”.

The former minister also criticized the “way these articles are covered” by the media and hopes that this organ “today recognizes that he has made a mistake.” “If I was the director of a communication channel that had during this period issued fake news, I at least did a communication at the end of a newscast or made an editorial note to say that we would also seek to learn from this process. respect for evaluation, checking the news with various sources, attempted confirmation “suggested.

Duarte Cordeiro also stated that he considers that “communication also shows no learning sign of this dimension.”

It is recalled that the Public Prosecution Service has deduced prosecution against 60 defendants in the context of the Tutti Frutti process for crimes of corruption, prevarication, bleaching and trafficking in influence, but did not accused either Duarte Cordeiro, nor the former mayor of Lisbon Fernando Medina.

The operation has investigated since 2018 alleged favors to PS and PSD militants, through bounds and public contracts, being suspected of passive corruption, influence trafficking, economic participation in business and prohibited financing.

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