“The CDS is demanding an apology from the Prime Minister and Dr. Ana Gomes for the allegations and insinuations it has made to Dr. Paulo Nuncio and to thePSD/CDS-PP government on AT’s computer system failure during transfers to tax havens”.
Nuno Melo, President of CDS and MEP, recalls that Paulo Núncio spent 6 years “was the target of clumsy and false innuendos promoted by current Prime Minister António Costa, inside and outside parliament, and by former MEP Ana Gomes, which they wanted to attribute to Dr. Paulo Núncio and the government, which was responsible for the problems in the computer system of the tax authorities with regard to the control of transfers to tax havens” and that the”Insinuations continued to be made even after the IGF report, as far back as 2017, Dr. Paulo Announcement of any responsibility for the above computer problems”.
For the CDS, what António Costa and Ana Gomes did “represents the worst of politics and should be subject to the greatest censorship”.
“Whoever behaves in this way, instruments justice with untruths and vile innuendo, for pure partisan gain, seriously contributes to discrediting democratic institutions”, says Nuno Melo.
The Department of Investigation and Criminal Action, which closed the case because it had not found any evidence of computer sabotage, concluded that the error in the processing of bank statements on transfers to offshore companies between 2011 and 2014 was due to a “computer malfunction”. without human intervention”.
Of the 18,200 million moved during that period, 10 billion had not been registered “were not subject to any treatment by the tax authorities”, prompting then-Secretary of State Rocha Andrade to request an audit from the General Inspectorate of Finance.
“Just like the IGF 6 years ago, the Public Prosecution Service is now absolutely clear: there was a glitch in AT’s computer systems, without any human intervention, causing Dr. Paulo Nuncio of any responsibility for what happened” emphasizes the leader of the CDS.
And so that there is no doubt, Nuno Melo emphasizes that this submission comes after the MP “heard the IGF inspectors, the professors of the Instituto Superior Técnico who performed the independent expertise on the computer system, the heads of AT and the administrator of the company that supplied the technology used by AT”.
The conclusion for the center leader can only be one: Costa and Ana Gomes must apologize “for the vile and false allegations and insinuations they made to Paulo Núncio and the previous PSD/CDS-PP government”.
Source: DN
