“During the election campaign, the Prime Minister did not make a great effort to explain. It was important, at least now, that he did not let the political environment become contaminated again by this case and drag the whole Government into this situation,” he said.
Ventura was responding to journalists’ questions about the request for more documentation from Montenegro by the Public Ministry (MP) to complete the preventive investigation into the business dealings of his family company, Spinumviva.
Speaking at the entrance to the opening of the Youth Academy of the party in Évora, the leader of Chega reminded that the Prime Minister is going to parliament on Wednesday, suggesting that “maybe he can or wants to give some clarification.”
“It is important for the country to be informed about what type of investigation is underway and its outcome,” he emphasized, pointing out that, since it involves the Prime Minister, the Portuguese “should know what to expect and what kind of suspicions there are.”
Noting that this request for documentation “is natural in an investigation,” André Ventura considered that it was important for the country to have “quickly a conclusion from this preventive investigation” and for the suspicions to be clarified.
This morning, in Porto, the Prime Minister stated that the MP’s request for more documents regarding Spinumviva “is nothing serious” and that he would send them “as soon as possible.”
However, Luís Montenegro refused to specify which documents were requested.
The MP asked the Prime Minister for more documentation to complete the preventive investigation into the business dealings of his family company Spinumviva, said the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) to the newspaper Nascer do Sol.
The controversy with the company Spinumviva arose with reports from Correio da Manhã indicating that the Prime Minister’s family company was engaged, among other activities, in the buying and selling of real estate.
Following the news about this line of business of Spinumviva, a discussion was initiated about the possible professional activity of the Prime Minister in parallel with his governmental duties and about the identity of the company’s clients and potential conflicts of interest.
In response to three complaints received by the Attorney General’s Office, the MP opened a preventive investigation into the Prime Minister’s family company to determine if there are indications justifying the opening of a criminal inquiry.
