The mayor of Condeixa-a-Nova and the PS district of Coimbra was sentenced this Friday to a suspended sentence for favoring companies when he was vice president of the Institute of Financial Management and Justice Equipment (IGFEJ).
In a post on his Facebook page, Nuno Moita stated that “It was fate” that he was sentenced on his birthday for “a trial to favor companies from Condeixawhen he was vice president of the IGFEJ, in connection with events that took place between 2010 and 2012.
The conviction was reported by Senado magazine, which stated that the mayor in Lisbon had been sentenced to a four-year suspended prison sentence by the crime of economic participation in business, not prevented from continuing to exercise the position of mayor of Condeixa-a-Nova.
In 2019, Lusa news agency noted that the Central Court of Criminal Instruction had decided not to bring seven defendants to trial, including N.uno Moita, who was accused of assigning work directly to the company of a friend, Armindo Marto, was also charged in the process.
The facts in the indictment, which were filed in response to an anonymous 2013 complaint, related to five privately awarded rehabilitation works.
At the time, Judge Carlos Alexandre did not confirm the MP’s contention and understood that “the assumptions leading to the consideration that the participation of these defendants is sufficiently charged strengthen the possibility of acquittal in the seat of the court, given the facts that imputed to them”.
“Later I was charged again after an appeal from the Public Prosecution Service and now I have been convicted in the first instance, albeit with a suspended sentence, in a way that I find absolutely unfair,” Nuno Moita said today.
In the publication he posted on Facebook, the mayor emphasizes that he will “appeal to the limits of what justice allows him”.
“I have many mistakes, but this one [de] I have none to accuse me. I have limited myself to inviting these companies,” emphasized the leader of the PS district of Coimbra, justifying the publication to “avoid abuse and abuse of this situation.”
The Lusa office tried to get clarification from the mayor, but without success.
Source: DN
