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Disappeared and Abducted Children and Young Adults => Madeleine McCann (3) disappeared from her parent's holiday apartment at Ocean Club, Praia da Luz, Portugal on 3 May 2007. No trace of her has ever been found. => Topic started by: misty on January 30, 2018, 11:29:46 PM
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http://portugalresident.com/%E2%80%9Ccontroversial%E2%80%9D-judge-named-official-suspect-and-%E2%80%98principal-target%E2%80%99-in-new-operation-into-alleged
Posted by PORTUGALPRESS on January 30, 2018
Controversial judge Rui Rangel - already linked to an investigation into alleged corruption, and most recently removed from any decision-making in the high-profile case against former prime minister José Sócrates - has today been made an arguido in an operation based on suspicions of corruption, money laundering, qualified fiscal fraud and influence trafficking.
Says television news channel SIC, Rangel, 72, was the principal target of Operation Lex that went ahead early this morning.
His home and office at Lisbon’s Court of Appeal were searched along with at least another 30 locations, including residencies, law offices and businesses.
The homes and workplaces of Benfica president Luís Filipe Vieira were also targeted, as was the residence of Rangel’s ex-wife, herself a judge, Fátima Galante.
PJ detectives working in collaboration with the Public Ministry are said to have launched this latest probe on the back of testimony taken in Operation Rota do Atlântico - a case in which Rangel is also an official suspect and under suspicion of having “received a fortune from football empresario José Veiga”, explains Público.
Operation Rota do Atlântico also involves the brother of recent PSD leadership contender Pedro Santana Lopes.
It is a complicated investigation centring on crimes of corruption in international business, fiscal fraud, money-laundering and influence trafficking.
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An interesting footnote to a political article he wrote, republished on Morais Blog in 2009
https://joana-morais.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/state-of-affairs-again-justice.html
Note: I post this opinion, which I totally agree with, because many believe that with the change of the Portuguese Socialist party the McCann Case will have a different outcome. I don't agree with that, unfortunately we cannot rely in a left or right wing government to do Justice, nor we should, Justice as in the sense of legal Justice, should be carried out by the proper institutions and persons who were delegated and entrusted to do that specific work without any kind of political interference. The Madeleine McCann Case is no longer a case at the hands of any Police or Ministry - Portuguese or British, it's a case that is now at the hands of the Civil Society, and that means all of us. Only from the actions of concerned and proactive Citizens, in Portugal and in Britain, can the case have a different outcome than the current archival.
Expect more on this issue.
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He worked on a book with Amaral in 2009.
http://themaddiecasefiles.com/gon-alo-amaral-launches-compilation-of-texts-about-t24368.html
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More links about him on Google.
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Both of those Links are worth a read.
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Judge Rui Rangel is accused of corruption allegations
Lex Operation
31 JANUARY 2018
00:44
David Mandim
Fátima Galante, also adjudicating judge, was constituted defendant. The case, in which five people were arrested, has eleven defendants. Luís Filipe Vieira was searched
Rui Rangel and ex-wife Fátima Galante were surprised yesterday morning when elements of the Judicial Police (PJ) began searches in their residences that extended to their offices in the superior court where they are placed. The two adjudicating judges of the Court of Appeal of Lisbon were yesterday constituted defendants by suspicions of influence peddling and corruption. The case in question, known as Lex by the PJ and which is the result of a certificate taken from the Rotas do Atlântico case in which businessman José Veiga is the main defendant, also involves the president of Benfica, Luís Filipe Vieira, also yesterday subject to house searches, and led to the arrest of four men and one woman, two lawyers and a third bailiff. In total there are eleven defendants constituted.
At the end of the day, the Attorney General's Office (PGR) clarified that the investigation is due to suspected crimes of trafficking in influence, corruption / misappropriation, money laundering and tax fraud. In the note, the PGR explains that, in addition to the five detainees, "the proceedings led to the formation of six more defendants, including two judges and a sports chief," not clarifying whether it is Luís Filipe Vieira. Sources linked to the suit say yes, but Benfica denied yesterday that its president was accused. The two judges were not detained because of legal impossibility, since Article 16 of the Statute of Judicial Magistrates provides that they can only be held in flagrante delicto.
The detainees are now heard in the Supreme Court by José Souto de Moura, the former attorney general of the Republic, who is a judge-counselor in the STJ and assumes in this case the role of examining magistrate. Souto de Moura accompanied yesterday the diligences, having been in the searches in the house of the judge Rui Rangel, in Algés. But for this case involving magistrates, the MP is represented by the coordinator of the prosecutors in the STJ, Paulo Sousa, aided by the DCIAP.
The police investigation is from the National Anti-Corruption Unit of PJ, which, in a statement, revealed that "during the operation 33 searches were carried out, 20 of which were domiciled, three were law firms, seven were companies and three were job posts ". The PGR added that there were searches in Lisbon Court of Appeals, law offices and other places in Greater Lisbon, including Estádio da Luz and Luís Filipe Vieira's house, and in the Algarve.
At stake will be suspected dating back to 2016, when the Rotas do Atlântico operation began, targeting businessman José Veiga for tax fraud and money laundering. At the time, the name of Rui Rangel - who in 2012 was a candidate for president of Benfica - emerged associated with Veiga. In October 2016, the Higher Council of Magistrates instituted an inquiry into the judge which, according to the Council, is still ongoing. Rui Rangel has had great media participation, sometimes controversial and that was censored by the MP in Operation Marquês. He was asked for his impediment to decide on this process, which had already been done on an appeal of the defense of Jose Socrates to whom he gave reason about the end of the secret of internal justice. The STJ gave reason to the MP and Rangel has been, since March, prevented from being judge in the case.
The ex-wife Fátima Galante is a judge in a civil section of the same court and in 1999 she was involved in a process with similar contours to it. It became suspected of selling sentences and the MP wanted to accuse her, but the Supreme Court closed the case. The main defendant of the case was the solicitor Horacio Patuleia, who died, who went to trial, with the judge to be indicated as a witness. In court she asked to be heard behind closed doors, but prosecutor Maria José Morgado refused as the collective. This case began with a complaint from two lawyers.
Benfica confirmed, in a statement, "the carrying out of searches in an investigation that is not aimed at the club," said lawyer João Correia, who called the performance of "certain sectors of the Public Prosecutor's Office" a "persecution." The lawyer denied that the president had been made an accused but admitted that he was.
https://www.dn.pt/portugal/interior/juiz-rui-rangel-e-arguido-por-suspeitas-de-corrupcao-9086292.html?utm_source=Push&utm_medium=Web
One wonders, is it superior knowledge of the law or is it superior knowledge of the judges which enables the confidence to stick right on in there to the end when all the slings and arrows appear to be aimed against you?
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Excellent news.
Just goes to show that no matter how powerful you are in Portugal if you're corrupt expect an early morning knock on the door. If only it were the same in the UK where money and power talks.
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It all sounds a bit incestuous to me.
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Excellent news.
Just goes to show that no matter how powerful you are in Portugal if you're corrupt expect an early morning knock on the door. If only it were the same in the UK where money and power talks.
Indeed, the Portuguese have recognised the historical corruption from the highest to the lowest within their system and have taken the appropriate steps to deal with it.
This truly cannot have been easy when one considers the position of huge power possessed by corrupt highly placed judges such as Rui Rangel and his former wife Fátima Galante.
A truly frightening concept for the Portuguese population faced with corruption in their establishment as epitomised in cases such as that of Paulo Pereira Cristóvão and his alleged criminal gang and a judiciary with some of the highest judges in the land implicated and charged with corruption.
Steps are being taken to root out the vestiges of the old guard and in my opinion we have not seen the end of it all yet.
Long overdue but an interesting chapter in history though, for us on the outside looking in ... maybe not so much for those on the inside waiting for it to be their turn for their door to be knocked.
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Excellent news.
Just goes to show that no matter how powerful you are in Portugal if you're corrupt expect an early morning knock on the door. If only it were the same in the UK where money and power talks.
My opinion is that the UK us still far more open than Portugal...
Montclair told us that there had never been a successful claim of a miscarriage of justice in Portugal..
What we, are, seeing may only be the tip of the iceberg. AS John pointed out beatings are almost acceptable by the Portuguese police.... May well be many more, arrests, are imminent
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So this is about someone who was made Arguido?
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Excellent news.
Just goes to show that no matter how powerful you are in Portugal if you're corrupt expect an early morning knock on the door. If only it were the same in the UK where money and power talks.
Money and power talks from one end of the earth to the other ... what do you suggest ... global insurrection? Would it be possible for you to provide a specific cite to back up your claim about the UK? Have I missed a clean up of the UK judiciary and police services on the continuous scale being carried out over the past few years in Portugal and now?
Endemic and organised nationwide corruption ... oh and maybe even one where some of the the participants have set themselves up as TV pundits in the mishandling of the case of a missing little girl ... thank you.
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My opinion is that the UK us still far more open than Portugal...
Montclair told us that there had never been a successful claim of a miscarriage of justice in Portugal..
What we, are, seeing may only be the tip of the iceberg. AS John pointed out beatings are almost acceptable by the Portuguese police.... May well be many more, arrests, are imminent
In my opinion the clean up has been going on for some time and I agree that it has a long way to go yet. Imagine the difficulties facing good clean officials in clearing out a corrupt establishment which has been power sharing amongst itself for generations.
In my opinion the carnation revolution was bloodless because nothing really changed; but it sure is changing now, slowly but surely, thanks to the dedication and determination of many unsung heroes.
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Indeed, the Portuguese have recognised the historical corruption from the highest to the lowest within their system and have taken the appropriate steps to deal with it.
This truly cannot have been easy when one considers the position of huge power possessed by corrupt highly placed judges such as Rui Rangel and his former wife Fátima Galante.
A truly frightening concept for the Portuguese population faced with corruption in their establishment as epitomised in cases such as that of Paulo Pereira Cristóvão and his alleged criminal gang and a judiciary with some of the highest judges in the land implicated and charged with corruption.
Steps are being taken to root out the vestiges of the old guard and in my opinion we have not seen the end of it all yet.
Long overdue but an interesting chapter in history though, for us on the outside looking in ... maybe not so much for those on the inside waiting for it to be their turn for their door to be knocked.
Unfortunately we face the same frightening concept as the Portuguese population with corruption in the highest echelons of our Establishment:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/nov/17/stevenmorris
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/267626/Scandal-of-the-judges-who-shame-justice
We can only hope that the corruption that festers within our own country's judiciary is dealt with just as swiftly and thoroughly as the Portuguese scandals.
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Unfortunately we face the same frightening concept as the Portuguese population with corruption in the highest echelons of our Establishment:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/nov/17/stevenmorris
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/267626/Scandal-of-the-judges-who-shame-justice
We can only hope that the corruption that festers within our own country's judiciary is dealt with just as swiftly and thoroughly as the Portuguese scandals.
You need to add a few large... IMOs... imo
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Money and power talks from one end of the earth to the other ... what do you suggest ... global insurrection? Would it be possible for you to provide a specific cite to back up your claim about the UK? Have I missed a clean up of the UK judiciary and police services on the continuous scale being carried out over the past few years in Portugal and now?
Endemic and organised nationwide corruption ... oh and maybe even one where some of the the participants have set themselves up as TV pundits in the mishandling of the case of a missing little girl ... thank you.
Ah there's the meat at last ! @)(++(*
BTW what has the choices made by daytime TV producers got to do with it ?
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Indeed, the Portuguese have recognised the historical corruption from the highest to the lowest within their system and have taken the appropriate steps to deal with it.
This truly cannot have been easy when one considers the position of huge power possessed by corrupt highly placed judges such as Rui Rangel and his former wife Fátima Galante.
A truly frightening concept for the Portuguese population faced with corruption in their establishment as epitomised in cases such as that of Paulo Pereira Cristóvão and his alleged criminal gang and a judiciary with some of the highest judges in the land implicated and charged with corruption.
Steps are being taken to root out the vestiges of the old guard and in my opinion we have not seen the end of it all yet.
Long overdue but an interesting chapter in history though, for us on the outside looking in ... maybe not so much for those on the inside waiting for it to be their turn for their door to be knocked.
Even those who had the old guard as mentors are now likely drawing their pensions.
You may have had a point ten years ago but as a point of argument is becoming more and more of a parody as time marches on. The Brill Building could use one or two new script writers....I look in vain for a "gazes on with mild derision" emoji.
Oh yes I forgot time is different at 37.0909° N, 8.7591° W.
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Ah there's the meat at last ! @)(++(*
BTW what has the choices made by daytime TV producers got to do with it ?
... and guess what ... as you deflect away from my request for a cite in support of your previous assertion ... you appear to have overlooked the necessity to provide one.
Please note ... my request for a cite still stands.
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... and guess what ... as you deflect away from my request for a cite in support of your previous assertion ... you appear to have overlooked the necessity to provide one.
Please note ... my request for a cite still stands.
A cite for what ?
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A cite for what ?
Your claims in http://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=9101.msg444123#msg444123.
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Here you go Brietta.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2524108/Judge-let-spoiled-rich-teen-killed-DUI-previously-boy-aged-fourteen-prison-TEN-YEARS.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/lavinia-woodward-stabbing-sentencing-spared-jail-heart-surgeon-oxford-inequality-justice-system-a7741371.html
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So this is about someone who was made Arguido?
Looks like... ?{)(**
Never mind just fire up the rumour mill , have a predictable overly verbose rant and hope the bozos don't notice...... ?>)()<
Based on but a perfunctory glance at British history the Brits legacy is bureacracy, corruption and cricket.
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Here you go Brietta.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2524108/Judge-let-spoiled-rich-teen-killed-DUI-previously-boy-aged-fourteen-prison-TEN-YEARS.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/lavinia-woodward-stabbing-sentencing-spared-jail-heart-surgeon-oxford-inequality-justice-system-a7741371.html
Thank you.
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Former FPF president is the 12th defendant in Operation Lex
Justice
31 JANUARY 2018
13:39
João Rodrigues was accused on Tuesday night, on arrival in Portugal from Luanda
João Rodrigues, former president of the Portuguese Football Federation, is the 12th defendant of Operation Lex, advances to Saturday . According to the magazine, the lawyer was constituted defendant on the night of Tuesday, upon arrival of a flight from Luanda.
Operation Lex investigates suspected crimes of influence peddling, corruption / improper receipt, money laundering and tax fraud, according to the Attorney General's Office. This operation is the result of a case file extracted from the Rota do Atlântico case, which involves the businessman José Veiga, a suspect of corruption.
Five people have already been detained and there are 12 defendants. Among those arrested are two lawyers and a bailiff. Two judges, Rui Rangel and Fátima Galante, are among the defendants, as the president and vice-president of Benfica, Luis Filipe Vieira and Fernando Tavares, confirmed Wednesday the PGR .
https://www.dn.pt/portugal/interior/ex-presidente-da-fpf-e-o-12o-arguido-na-operacao-lex-9087313.html
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Are you in favour of corruption by senior judiciary in PT? Why? There has to be a reason.
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Here you go Brietta.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2524108/Judge-let-spoiled-rich-teen-killed-DUI-previously-boy-aged-fourteen-prison-TEN-YEARS.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/lavinia-woodward-stabbing-sentencing-spared-jail-heart-surgeon-oxford-inequality-justice-system-a7741371.html
The first case you cited was actually from the USA.
Is there any suggestion that the exchange of money or favour influenced the judge's decision in the second case? If not, then it is hardly comparable to what has been happening in the upper echelons of Portugal's political & justice systems.
Sergey Malinka recently made a comment that he thought some people were above the law. IMO he was talking about those within his adopted country & it would be foolish to readily dismiss this angle when looking at the level of political involvement in the Madeleine investigation.
There is yet another ongoing case in Portugal where a Magistrate was bribed to drop 2 cases against the VP of Angola.
https://www.voanews.com/a/angolan-vice-president-corruption-charges-portugal/3727101.html
and
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://expresso.sapo.pt/economia/2018-01-31-Operacao-FIZZ-Paulo-Blanco-descodifica-agenda-de-Orlando-Figueira&prev=search
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The first case you cited was actually from the USA.
Is there any suggestion that the exchange of money or favour influenced the judge's decision in the second case? If not, then it is hardly comparable to what has been happening in the upper echelons of Portugal's political & justice systems.
Sergey Malinka recently made a comment that he thought some people were above the law. IMO he was talking about those within his adopted country & it would be foolish to readily dismiss this angle when looking at the level of political involvement in the Madeleine investigation.
There is yet another ongoing case in Portugal where a Magistrate was bribed to drop 2 cases against the VP of Angola.
https://www.voanews.com/a/angolan-vice-president-corruption-charges-portugal/3727101.html
and
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://expresso.sapo.pt/economia/2018-01-31-Operacao-FIZZ-Paulo-Blanco-descodifica-agenda-de-Orlando-Figueira&prev=search
Do tell us more.
Let's have a competition:
Provide evidence there are police forces in the whole round world that remain corruption free.
We could have fun drawing up league tables utilising pencils and stuff and talking about all kinds of groovy stuff like mother raping and father stabbing like y'all do on the Group W bench*.
p.s do you realise that under Portuguese law once charged there is a presumption of innocence until the full gamut of the national process has been exhausted*. We seem to have a surfeit of clairbleedinvoyants in this manor.
* Talking of exhausted I thought Arlo was pushing it a bit with 22 minutes for "My Restaurant". I wonder what he would make of ten years of supporters peddling stories of corruption in the Portuguese Judiciary... *%87
Ten years! holy cow that's nearly as long as Attenborough's Oscar acceptance speech for Gandhi.... ?{)(**
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Do tell us more.
Let's have a competition:
Provide evidence there are police forces in the whole round world that remain corruption free.
We could have fun drawing up league tables utilising pencils and stuff and talking about all kinds of groovy stuff like mother raping and father stabbing like y'all do on the Group W bench*.
p.s do you realise that under Portuguese law once charged there is a presumption of innocence until the full gamut of the national process has been exhausted*. We seem to have a surfeit of clairbleedinvoyants in this manor.
* Talking of exhausted I thought Arlo was pushing it a bit with 22 minutes for "My Restaurant". I wonder what he would make of ten years of supporters peddling stories of corruption in the Portuguese Judiciary... *%87
Ten years! holy cow that's nearly as long as Attenborough's Oscar acceptance speech for Gandhi.... ?{)(**
I doubt there is a police force in the world which isn't corrupt to some degree; the price of freedom versus the price of safety. However, I have brought this thread to the forum because it may have a bearing on why Madeleine's disappearance was so poorly handled.
There is another place for you to arrange a competition, with a prize of your choice. There appears to be little else of any interest going on there. 8(0(*
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I doubt there is a police force in the world which isn't corrupt to some degree; the price of freedom versus the price of safety. However, I have brought this thread to the forum because it may have a bearing on why Madeleine's disappearance was so poorly handled.
There is another place for you to arrange a competition, with a prize of your choice. There appears to be little else of any interest going on there. 8(0(*
There are bad and corrupt individuals in every walk of life; I think it is when it becomes the institutionalised norm that the severity of the problem has to be recognised.
There seems to be a bit of denial going on and I must admit to a certain amusement gleaned from one or two posts which I think can only have been posted with the intention to deflect from the topic.
Judge Rui Rangel has appeared on television programmes expressing his opinion on Madeleine McCann's case; presently he is an arguido. What one wonders about that is does he fall into the newly invented category which maintains that once an arguido ... always an arguido? Interesting.
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There are bad and corrupt individuals in every walk of life; I think it is when it becomes the institutionalised norm that the severity of the problem has to be recognised.
There seems to be a bit of denial going on and I must admit to a certain amusement gleaned from one or two posts which I think can only have been posted with the intention to deflect from the topic.
Judge Rui Rangel has appeared on television programmes expressing his opinion on Madeleine McCann's case; presently he is an arguido. What one wonders about that is does he fall into the newly invented category which maintains that once an arguido ... always an arguido? Interesting.
Or, as an arguido, does he deserve the whole presumption of innocence thing that supporters were quick to bestow on the McCanns when they were arguidos?
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Or, as an arguido, does he deserve the whole presumption of innocence thing that supporters were quick to bestow on the McCanns when they were arguidos?
@)(++(* The problem in my opinion, lies not with the "when" but with the "now" as laid down in Portugal in January of last year.
Maybe the implication of that is becoming all the clearer to those sceptics who traded the right to the presumption of innocence for a moment's glee at that time.
Have you never heard of what is sauce for the goose ...
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@)(++(* The problem in my opinion, lies not with the "when" but with the "now" as laid down in Portugal in January of last year.
Maybe the implication of that is becoming all the clearer to those sceptics who traded the right to the presumption of innocence for a moment's glee at that time.
Have you never heard of what is sauce for the goose ...
Absolutely.
Tell me Brietta how do you think this judge becoming an arguido is going to help Madeleine or indeed her parents to find her ?
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Absolutely.
Tell me Brietta how do you think this judge becoming an arguido is going to help Madeleine or indeed her parents to find her ?
None at all, but people must get their little pleasures where they can .
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Judicial Council can only suspend Rangel after being notified by MP
Lex Operation
01 FEBRUARY 2018
00:38
Rute Coelho
Judges Rui Rangel and Fátima Galante are still working in Relação de Lisboa, despite being accused in Operation Lex, because the Superior Council of Judiciary is waiting for the PGR to report on the case
Judge Rui Rangel, accused in Operation Lex on suspicion of using his influence with his magistrates to influence judicial decisions - allegedly in favor of Luís Filipe Vieira, president of Benfica, or businessman José Veiga - is still in office on 9 .ª Criminal Section of the Lisbon Court of Appeal. The ex-wife, the adjudicator Fátima Galante, of the 6th civil section of the Relação de Lisboa, also defendant - as well as ten other people, among them Luís Filipe Vieira -, is also in active duty. A suspension may only be made following a decision of the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM), the disciplinary body of the judges.
What has not happened since the CSM will only meet after being officially informed by the Public Ministry of the constitution as defendants of the two judges. The vice-president of the board, Mário Morgado, justified the action: "The CSM will analyze the situation as soon as it receives official information on the subject. Any measures within the scope of the Council's powers will be published in due course."
https://www.dn.pt/DNMultimedia/DOCS+PDFS/Opera%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20LEX%20Luis%20Filipe%20Vieira%20e%20Rui%20Rangel.pdf
The DN learned from the advisory body of this disciplinary body that the CSM can only meet in plenary to decide on the interim suspension of the two judges when it receives an official communication from the Supreme Court of Justice (STJ) on the process of the Lex operation. Or, alternatively, an official communication from the Attorney General's Office (PGR).
In declarations to the DN the Supreme said that it does not have this obligation: "Who has to send the communication to the Superior Council of Magistracy is the Public Prosecutor, that is who has the investigation." However, the PGR, which has sent press releases on the case, did not know until yesterday afternoon that it had to inform the disciplinary body of the judges. The DN asked if the PGR was going to send this formal communication, but until the closing of this edition there was no response.
It is certain that Rui Rangel and Fátima Galante end up having the credibility and the image reached since Operation Lex is related to the alleged abuse of their judicial functions.
And while there is no decision of the CSM may, in theory, be distributed, by lot, processes in the Relation. "This formality is unnecessary," as summarized by penitentiary Paulo Sá e Cunha. He goes on to explain: "The Superior Council of Magistrates may, on the basis of the public facts and press releases of the PGR, meet in plenary and decide to open a disciplinary process to the two judges, taking preventive measures such as the temporary suspension of functions. " Another way of suspending the judges, Sá e Cunha says, is "in the context of the criminal process a measure of coercion of suspension of duties is applied."
But the two justices of the Lisbon Relation will only be heard in first interrogation at the Supreme Court on February 8 and 9. And the next CSM plenary is on 6 February. Unless an emergency plenum is scheduled, the two magistrates will be in active duty until one of these dates.
All the defendants will be heard in the Supreme Court because there was a "process connection". Yesterday, at the end of the afternoon, Judge counselor Pires da Graça of the 3rd criminal court of the Supreme Court of Justice began hearing the five defendants who were detained in order to respect the hearing deadline 48 hours after the arrest.
The detainees are the lawyer José Santos Martins, a friend of Rui Rangel, and his son Bernardo André, who will have made available their bank accounts to be deposited funds that allegedly would be delivered to the judge Rui Rangel who would receive them as payment by decisions which it was supposed to influence; the justice officer Otávio Correia, a former companion of Rangel, Rita Figueira, and Jorge Barroso, lawyer of Luís Filipe Vieira in real estate related business.
Operation Lex investigates suspicions of corruption / misappropriation, money laundering, influence peddling and tax fraud. 33 searches were carried out by the PJ's anti-corruption unit on Tuesday, of which 20 were domiciled, namely Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Luís Filipe Vieira's house; the residence of the two judges and three law firms.
Meanwhile, at the beginning of the evening, SIC reported that Benfica lawyer João Correia has called for nullity of the searches that took place on Tuesday in the Benfica SAD.
At stake in this investigation is the suspicion that Judge Rui Rangel sells the influence he would have with his colleagues in the Relation and even magistrates in other courts to influence judicial decisions, as would have happened in a case in which economic and financial crimes were committed in the hiring of the player João Pinto for Sporting. "If the lawsuits in question have been tainted by Rangel's influence, parties that feel injured may be entitled to reopen proceedings," analyzes Paulo Sá e Cunha. "And if it proves to be in judgment that the influence of the judge Rui Rangel led to the practice of illicit decisions, other judges could still be constituted defendants", concludes.
Criminal lawyer Fernando Silva explains that "any possibility that the lawsuits are tainted must be reported to the Public Prosecutor's Office. The PM itself may order reopening of proceedings."
According to Lusa, who cites sources linked to the case, the alleged private provision of legal services and the concealment of tax amounts received by Rui Rangel are other situations also at issue in this case.
https://www.dn.pt/portugal/interior/csm-so-suspende-rangel-depois-de-ser-informado-pelo-ministerio-publico-9088720.html
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Rui Rangel missed the sessions scheduled at the Court of Appeal
Lex Operation
FEBRUARY 1, 2018
15:30
The judge is indicted in Operation Lex but has not yet been suspended from duty. Local call police
Rui Rangel had scheduled for today, in the Court of Appeal of Lisbon, where he is a judge in the 9th criminal court, four sessions for the publication of judgments, one of which was rapporteur. He did not appear for "personal reasons", according to the court explained. But the explanation came only after reporters had called the PSP.
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According to Lusa, this information from the president of the Lisbon Court of Appeal, Orlando Nascimento, was made available to journalists after they were prevented from consulting the guidelines on the decisions of the ninth criminal section scheduled for today.
The journalists asked for the presence of the PSP to be granted access to the space where the court's decisions are established and only after the arrival of the police did the notice of the TRL president be released.
https://www.dn.pt/portugal/interior/rui-rangel-nao-comparece-no-tribunal-da-relacao-por-motivos-de-natureza-pessoal-9090460.html
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There is one more defendant in Operation Lex
Justice
01 FEBRUARY 2018
19:18
Thus, the number of persons accused in the investigation rises to 13
Operation Lex counts another defendant, with the constitution of Nuno Proença, this Thursday, according to news to RTP 3.
The public television station also says that in the next few hours more people are expected to be charged under this investigation.
https://www.dn.pt/portugal/interior/ha-mais-um-arguido-na-operacao-lex-9091328.html
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I doubt there is a police force in the world which isn't corrupt to some degree; the price of freedom versus the price of safety. However, [b1) ]I have brought this thread to the forum because it may have a bearing on why Madeleine's disappearance was so poorly handled. [/b]
There is another place for you to arrange a competition, with a prize of your choice. There appears to be little else of any interest going on there. 8(0(*
1) As the case has not been solved you are no position to judge whether it has been badly or not. Bin that one.
2) No thanks I enjoy it too much here... ?>)()<
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My opinion is that the UK us still far more open than Portugal...
Montclair told us that there had never been a successful claim of a miscarriage of justice in Portugal..
What we, are, seeing may only be the tip of the iceberg. AS John pointed out beatings are almost acceptable by the Portuguese police.... May well be many more, arrests, are imminent
I never said that there had never been a successful claim of a miscarriage of justice. So please just shut up and stop repeating this "misinterpretation".
As for beatings, they are not considered acceptable in Portugal. Just recently several policeman are being investigated for beating up some young men at a police station in the Lisbon and are also accused of racism. Even in the call of duty, if a policeman shoots someone they are investigated by the public prosecutor. One GNR had to pay compensation to the father of a child he shot dead. The father was carrying out a robbery and took his son along with him! When the GNR shot at the vehicle during a chase, the child was shot and died. The policeman was severely punished.
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I never said that there had never been a successful claim of a miscarriage of justice. So please just shut up and stop repeating this "misinterpretation".
As for beatings, they are not considered acceptable in Portugal. Just recently several policeman are being investigated for beating up some young men at a police station in the Lisbon and are also accused of racism. Even in the call of duty, if a policeman shoots someone they are investigated by the public prosecutor. One GNR had to pay compensation to the father of a child he shot dead. The father was carrying out a robbery and took his son along with him! When the GNR shot at the vehicle during a chase, the child was shot and died. The policeman was severely punished.
Do you find it acceptable that the courts have allowed those 18 officers accused of brutality to continue in their roles serving the community?
http://portugalresident.com/court-vetoes-bid-to-suspend-18-police-accused-of-racist-aggression
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Here you go Brietta.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2524108/Judge-let-spoiled-rich-teen-killed-DUI-previously-boy-aged-fourteen-prison-TEN-YEARS.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/lavinia-woodward-stabbing-sentencing-spared-jail-heart-surgeon-oxford-inequality-justice-system-a7741371.html
Does anyone have an update on the Lavinia Woodward case?
The judge said;
"What you did will never, I know, leave you but it was pretty awful and normally it would attract a custodial sentence whether it is immediate or suspended.”
How on earth would a judge or anyone for that matter "know" it will never leave her? What if, for example, Lavinia Woodward is a psychopath?
"During the case Sturman told the court that Woodward had a “very troubled” life and was abused at the hands of a previous partner. He also revealed that the student, who prior to Oxford had attended the £16,000-a-year Sir James Henderson British School of Milan, where her mother lives, has struggled with drug addiction.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/806155/oxford-student-lavinia-woodward-stab-boyfriend-bread-knife-spared-jail
According to Dr Michael Naughton, reader in sociology and law at Bristol University and an expert in miscarriages of justice, the case is deeply troubling.
“This smacks of social class distinction and privilege,” he points out. “It’s totally out of kilter with the system. If the law is legitimate, it has to be consistent. A case like this calls into question the legitimacy of the whole criminal justice system.”
Naughton’s concern is not simply that Woodward would appear to be getting off lightly but that she may be doing so simply because of her privileged background.
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I doubt there is a police force in the world which isn't corrupt to some degree; the price of freedom versus the price of safety. However, I have brought this thread to the forum because it may have a bearing on why Madeleine's disappearance was so poorly handled.
There is another place for you to arrange a competition, with a prize of your choice. There appears to be little else of any interest going on there. 8(0(*
Would you mind explaining why you think the investigation was poorly handled, and at what point did you have these'thoughts' I am asking out of interest. to see if you were, like some on here seem blinded by the McCann PR machine.