Tit for Tat: Maddie Case & Freeport Case

The decision of the Central Department for Penal Investigation and Action [DCIAP] in not allowing the lift of the banking secrecy of José Sócrates is also fundamented with the English Government unhelpful attitude in the case of the disappearance of the girl Madeleine McCann in Praia da Luz, Algarve.

This thesis has been evoked by the magistrates of that department, who even consider to be "offensive" the behavior of the British authorities, the very same who didn't show any willingness to investigate the eventual pressures of the Prime Minister of that country when Maddie disappeared.

Another situation which has caused some nuisance it's precisely the fact of the English - who are the most unhelpful in the ambit of the European Judicial Cooperation - who have requested the lift of the banking secrecy. This "attitude" was seen as a 'provocation', since the lifting of the secrecy of the bank accounts is precisely the one to which the British Police offers more resistance.

According to Correio da Manhã, the fact that the British authorities have not yet complied [fully] to the requests sent by the Portuguese authorities [in 2005] under the scope of the same investigation is reason enough for the British letter rogatory to be seen with bewilderment.

Source: Correio da Manhã, paper edition, 30 January 2009



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by astro

Am I right in saying that there could be a link then why the macs got off?

by Gonçalo Amaral*

The United Kingdom,‭ ‬a country that finds it difficult to respond to cooperation requests,‭ ‬has asked for access to our prime minister’s bank accounts.

It seems that said request is imperious due to mere hypotheses and few or no indicia of illegal practices in the Freeport case. In the 'Maddie case' we only requested the registries of the parents' and the friends' credit cards.

The reply was hilarious: "Bank accounts and credit cards are not known." Those doctors had mortgages and used credit cards to travel and to acquire goods and services, yet the information was denied, not even a rogatory letter managed to obtain something that was considered essential for the investigation, which was based on strong indicia and not on mere speculation.

If at the moment, for political reasons, the death of that child is considered, in England, a matter of national security, what can be said about the British attack against the prime minister of an independent, democratic country? Do the English continue to see Portugal as a banana republic where we always say 'yes'? It's about time to say 'no'.

What we expect is a reply that complies with the principle of reciprocity: bank accounts or credit cards belonging to our prime minister are not known...


source: Correio da Manhã, 31.01.2009


* former PJ inspector

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by astro

:Theman: has spoken!!

And damn right he is too!