The Defense Minister confirmed today that there are “almost three dozen” ongoing inspections at the ministry she oversees, as the DN highlighted in this Monday’s edition, calling former financial manager Paulo Branco’s accusations “slander ” considered. that ‘not everything counts’.
“There are more than twenty, almost three dozen, ongoing inspections and audits requested, but I would like to emphasize that, in addition to these ongoing inspection efforts, we must raise awareness and educate people for a culture that provides, anticipates and hinders illegal practices and corruption,” says Helena Carreiras in Matosinhos, Porto district.
As she explained, some of those inspections were requested by her: “In addition, over the past year I have announced the strengthening of a series of inspections, some of them are regular inspections of the National Defense Inspectorate, others have been requested by me explicitly to more to provide transparency and better understand what is going on and, above all, to prevent past situations from recurring.
According to the DN, citing Helena Carreiras’ office, 17 of those 29 inspections “related to public works contracts, public procurement, financial flows and internal control systems, the implementation of the Military Infrastructure Law and the Military Programming Law” .
Once again confronted with statements to Expresso from the former Director of Financial Management Services of the Ministry of Defense, accused of corruption and money laundering during Operation Perfect Storm, that that ministry ‘over the years’ financed Helena Carreiras’ academic research into that de After the researcher gave a “scientific stamp” to the data collected by the General Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Helena Carreiras refuted those accusations.
“They are slander, they are absolutely baseless accusations (…) “We cannot be intimidated or allow accusations like this from people accused of corruption and who, in a recognized strategy, try to arouse and arouse suspicion others to prevail,” he said.
“Not everything goes and that is why we must combat these types of statements with facts,” he concluded.
According to Expresso, Paulo Branco’s statements were made in July before the prosecutor of the Department of Investigation and Criminal Justice (DIAP) in Lisbon, during which Paulo Branco devalued the work of the professor, who studied military sociology for more than twenty years.
According to Expresso, the ISCTE website lists two studies funded by the General Directorate of National Defense Resources (DGRDN) and one by the Ministry of Defense, coordinated by Helena Carreiras, with a total value of 20.4 thousand euros, from of which 10.8 thousand euros went to the researcher’s remuneration.
Source: DN
