António Costa paid more than 80 thousand and 320 euros to Miguel Alves in three direct adjustments when he was mayor in Lisbon, between 2007 and 2015, advanced TVI/CNN Portugal🇧🇷
The contracts signed during the term of office of the current prime minister in the capital’s autarchy focused on the provision of advisory services.
At the time, in 2010, Miguel Alves had resigned five months ago as Costa’s assistant in Lisbon, three years before running for mayor of Caminha. The contracts and adjustments were all arranged in one day, on March 15 of that year.
The aim would be to advise Socialist councilwoman Graça Fonseca, who would later become Minister of Culture during Costa’s rule, in the context of participatory budgeting.
Miguel Alves was only 35 years old at the time and had no experience whatsoever in providing municipal law consultancy services.
At the same time, Miguel Alves was already working for Geocapital, a company owned by Diogo Lacerda Machado, close to Costa. This plan allowed him to continue his activity in the Lisbon Chamber on an outsourcing basis, although according to TVI/CNN Portugal he did not work in the premises of the municipality in order to maintain discretion. At the time, the issue was even raised by Social Democratic deputy Maria José Cruz, but Costa never gave any justification for the direct adjustments.
Yet Miguel Alves did not complete one of the three contracts, curiously the one with the highest value, €61,559, having received around €50,000.
Miguel Alves presented his resignation as deputy secretary of state to the Prime Minister last Thursday, on the day the observer reported that he was charged by the Public Prosecution Service (MP) with the crime of subterfuge under a certificate extract. of Operation Teia for acts committed while mayor of Caminha, Viana do Castelo district.
The former mayor took office on September 16 for a position that António Costa had not initially chosen in his third executive’s organization, which was set up on March 30.
Source: DN
