Socialist deputy Carlos Pereira, who was the rapporteur of a committee of inquiry into Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) and who announced his departure from the parliamentary committee of inquiry into TAP on Thursday, denied on Friday that the public bank owed him 66 thousand euros in the payment of credit to the company from the era of the guarantor.
“It is incorrect that there was pardon and incompatibility in my participation in the Commission of Inquiry of the CGD. It is a serious accusation,” stressed the deputy in the Assembly of the Republic.
“The debt was not mine, I was the guarantor,” emphasizes Carlos Pereira, before explaining his version of the facts: “Between 2016 and 2021, attempts were made with the bank to resolve the dispute. , but the bank , in the middle of the process, went to court. wanted to buy the debt. The amounts exploited have a legal basis and the guarantors pay.”
“I had no debt. A guarantor does not own the debt. There is a nature of the guarantee,” he insisted when questioned by a journalist.
Nevertheless, Carlos Pereira says he is leaving the committee of inquiry because “it is important to restore calm in the committee”. “Deputies must be calm and comfortable to ask questions, conduct research and draw the right conclusions. That the climate of suspicion and innuendo that has led the parliamentary committee of inquiry come to an end,” he stressed.
Asked if he can continue as PS bank vice president, the deputy sent the reply to parliamentary leader Eurico Brilhante Dias, who in turn declined to comment.
Source: DN
