Correia was employed to go after Amaral.
No doubt about it.
Any guest reading the forum will know that as well.
One very important element that appears to be entirely absent from this thread so far is that Marcos Aragao Correia was not only employed (as he clearly was) to discredit Goncalo Amaral.
He had a much, much wider brief than that.
He was actively involved with Metodo 3 in planning the two searches for Madeleine's bones which took place for one week at the end of January 2008 and again in March that year. The rather loose-lipped Correia actually gave us all the information we needed about this by boasting how had met with both Francisco Marco and Antonio Giminez Raso, his lead Madeleine McCann investigator, at the Arada Dam on 10 December 2007. This meeting was quite an event, since to meet there would involve Marco and Giminez Raso travelling several hundred miles from Barcelona, Spain, and Correia flying over from an island in the middle of the Atlantic - Madeira.
Who paid all those travelling costs, I wonder?
All of this and much much more wonderfully informative and entertaining material can be found in a lengthy interview given by Correia to
Portuguese journalist, José Leite, from the magazine O Crime, in December 2008. In this interview, he spoke about a book he was writing that ‘mixed truth and fiction’ (perhaps a bit like himself in real life), titled: “The Little Girls that Came from the Stars”. He said it contained references to the hunt for Madeleine McCann.
My favourite part of this article is this quote from Correia:
“Método 3 submitted me to a test in order to prove beyond all doubt whether or not my mediumistic abilities and my accounts were credible. They were fed up with following false leads. The fact is that the test gave totally positive results, according to what was confirmed to me personally by the Director of Método 3 in Barcelona himself. Following my mediumistic abilties passing Método 3’s stringent tests, Método 3 offered full support to my research. But given the fact that Maddie’s parents preferred to spend the decreasing money from the Find Madeleine Fund mainly following leads based on the belief that their daughter was still alive, they dismissed the possibility of paying professional divers to search the dam. So I offered myself to pay for the first phase of the searches in the dam, having later received much support, including financial support, from mediums and spiritualists who believed in and corroborated my theory”.It is hard to comprehend how a group of people who included the nation's Head of Media Monitoring, a prominent north-western Solicitor, the Cheshire businessman worth £250 million who headed up the McCann Team's investigation and of course two General Practitioners, could have ever employed such people in what was supposed to be a diligent search for a missing three-year-old.
