TAP asked for an additional 35 days to send the requested information to the investigative committee, as 10 days is a “manifestly insufficient” period, according to a request that Lusa accessed on Tuesday.
“The sheer volume of documents covered by this request implies the location, consultation and compilation of thousands of documents and archives, which in many cases will have to be read one by one,” TAP begins by pointing out in a document addressed to the chairman of the parliamentary committee of inquiry to the political supervision of the management of TAP, Jorge Seguro Sanches, which Lusa had access to.
The airline says 111 requests have been made, “many” of which represent the collection of “hundreds” or even “thousands” of documents from different areas and require the company to verify that they contain confidential information.
“The 10-day deadline therefore appears to be clearly insufficient to carry out the necessary collection and analysis,” TAP believes, and therefore asks for an extension of the 10-day deadline initially set for sending the documents by a period “not less than 35 days”, that is, a total of 45 days to send the documents.
On March 1, the TAP investigative committee approved all requests from the parties with the documents to be requested from the various entities, which have 10 days to respond under the legal regime of parliamentary investigations. Jorge Seguro Sanches explained that once these documents reach parliament, the Commission of Inquiry will move “to the next stage”, that is, the request for the hearings and their timing.
The chairman of the committee reiterated calls for the speed of work as it runs “counterclockwise” as this committee’s goal has set its duration at 90 days.
The PS reported to Lusa last week that the socialists had asked for the agreement to unlink Alexandra Reis from TAP and the information the “chairman” has given to the government on this, as well as the report of the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) on this issue.
On the day of the inauguration of the investigative committee proposed by the BE, the blockade deputy Mariana Mortágua announced that the party would, among other things, “request all correspondence between the board of TAP and the political tutelages in the various ministries regarding management awards”. , severance payments or wages” of the company.
In addition to the IGF report, the PSD wants access to all internal and external government communications regarding the Alexandra Reis case.
Among other things, IL wants to know the contracts of Alexandra Reis, the CEO of TAP and the other directors, as well as the record of awards and fees awarded in the company between 2019 and 2022.
Chega also wants to know the airline’s restructuring plan “completely delivered in Brussels and without deletions” and the legal advice requested by TAP from the law firm SRS Legal, regarding the compensation of half a million euros to Alexandra Reis .
For example, the PCP demanded the “presentation of documentation on aircraft purchases, on executive compensation over the past ten years, on the deals made by the private shareholder with TAP for the benefit of Atlantic Gateway”.
Source: DN
