“Disclosed the news about the intervention of the Information Services [e Segurança (SIS)] in the disposal of the computer equipment of the former deputy of the Cabinet of the Minister of Infrastructure, if confirmed, are serious and likely to violate the most basic principles of the rule of law, as well as constitutionally enshrined fundamental rights,” BE stated in the application disclosed to the media.
According to the blockers, although the Prime Minister, António Costa, “denies having given instructions to the SIS to intervene in this episode, the data known so far confirms the intervention of that agency”.
“The Security Information Service is not a criminal police agency, has no power or authority to carry out raids or searches and is bound by the law and the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic,” he stressed.
BE also stresses that the SIRP supervises the SIS and is “directly under the supervision of the Prime Minister, so it is imperative to hear the Secretary General of the Information System of the Portuguese Republic for clarification of this matter”.
The request for a hearing, submitted within the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, is urgent.
The PSD and the PAN also requested an urgent hearing this morning from the Secretary General of the SIRP, but also from the Director of the SIS on the involvement of the information services in the recovery of the computer attributed to the former assistant to the Minister of Infrastructure.
The SIRP Oversight Board clarified today that it took action on its own initiative to recover the computer assigned to a government adviser that contained information deemed classified.
In a note released today, the SIRP Oversight Board clarifies that, following the news made public on May 28, about SIS’s involvement in the recovery of a state-owned laptop, it has “immediately and on its own initiative taken the necessary information to to fulfill its supervisory duties”.
The laptop in question was attributed to Frederico Pinheiro, former assistant to minister João Galamba, who was fired following the controversy over the delivery of documents to the parliamentary committee of inquiry into TAP.
In the note released today, the SIRP Supervisory Board also informs that its activity is “classified and reserved by law”.
Source: DN
