The former assistant to the infrastructure minister wrote to the chairman of the parliamentary inquiry committee (CPI) this Monday to TAP management to express “total availability” to be heard by the deputies, Frederico Pinheiro revealed.
“I turn to Your Excellency, in response to the requests made for my hearing, to indicate my full availability to provide any clarifications that the Honorable Members of the CPI may deem necessary”reads in the “email” sent to the committee’s chairman, Jorge Seguro Sanches, to which Lusa had access.
The hearing of Frederico Pinheiro in the context of the Commission of Inquiry into the political oversight of TAP’s management had already been requested by PSD and Chega on Friday. The requests to hear the acquitted deputy of Minister João Galamba have not yet been granted.
Under the law governing parliamentary inquiries, if requests for hearing are approved, “failure to appear, refusal to testify or failure to comply with legitimate orders of a parliamentary inquiry commission in the exercise of its duties shall constitute a crime of qualified disobedience”.
Source: DN
