Ex-PJ detective Paulo Pereira Cristóvão remanded in custody

[misty]

Tip of the iceberg of propaganda more like

Why didn't Summers and Swan mention Cristóvão?

Perhaps they were made aware he was under investigation for a little more than illegal activity at Sporting?

[Mr Gray]

Tip of the iceberg of propaganda more like

Why didn't Summers and Swan mention Cristóvão?

They had more sense than amaral to write about an ongoing case

[Lyall]

Perhaps they were made aware he was under investigation for a little more than illegal activity at Sporting?

Because they were writing a book about what happened to Madeleine, and he had nothing to do with the investigation

[Lyall]

They had more sense than amaral to write about an ongoing case

See my post above %£&)**#

[Alice Purjorick]

Please note ... Paulo Pereira Cristóvão is the bent cop, which led to him becoming an ex bent cop ... if you don't appreciate that being pointed out ... entirely your prerogative.

You have yet to properly answer the questions I posed.

[Alice Purjorick]

3 policemen from the same small force...involved in 3 different criminal activities...it hasn't happened everywhere..it's titanic...like the tip of the iceberg

I thought you were familiar with the West Midlands?
The second emboldened bit doesn't make sense considering Titanic was a metal ship and an iceberg is frozen water.

[Anna]

Tip of the iceberg of propaganda more like

Why didn't Summers and Swan mention Cristóvão?
[/quote]

For the same reason as they didn’t mention Levy, Sonia, Brenda and her friends and all the others who enjoy discussing the McCanns in the same way as Cristovao did in his book, articles, interviews and blogs?

However most of the persons mentioned above had their own space on here apart from Cristovao....He has, now though.

A wee connection to McCanns..........

Last updated at 01:33 21 April 2008

Excerpt:-

As for Cristovao, he left the PJ after the Joana case to become a writer.
Last year, as a columnist for Diario de Noticias, he became a prolific commentator on the Madeleine inquiry, writing a series of articles apparently derived in part from conversations with his former colleagues.
Last month, with the publication of his book The Star Of Madeleine, currently the Algarve's No3 bestseller, he has mounted a robust defence of the PJ in general and Amaral in particular.


"In the PJ's opinion, everything written about Amaral in the British Press had one purpose - to get him taken off the case," Cristovao's book says.
"He was a piece of meat on the barbecue of the British media, which accused him of drinking too much, dressing badly, having a prominent belly and spending too much time at lunch.
"He was too much the normal Portuguese policeman ... when what the British wanted was the British way of doing things."

The book, much of it composed of a fictional dialogue between two fictional PJ officers, Francisco and Joao, recycles some of the cruellest smears against the McCanns, such as the claim that Gerry did not get sufficiently involved in the children's routines. Such information, it claims, gave the police "an idea how the family functioned".
 
It also contains details that can have come only from inside the investigation: as a view of PJ thinking, it may well be as authentic an account as has yet been given.

If so, its conclusions are shocking, among them the view that Madeleine is dead and that if her parents did not kill her physically, they did so by their public campaign to find her.

"The publicity given to her face was her death warrant - that's if she really left that apartment still alive," he writes.
Cristovao refused to meet me, saying that too many British journalists were "racist".

But I managed to ask him whether he was not worried that the McCanns might sue him for libel, pointing out that they had been awarded £550,000 against four newspapers last month. "I'm expecting that," he replied. "I've no fear. It will be a big joy."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-560696/Madeleine-The-damning-case-police-Britains-investigative-reporter.html

[mercury]

Where has my post gone? Did you delete it Anna Moderator? That is unfair.
If a member here casts aspersions about the death of somebody, who IS dead, they should be called out on it! like I said, SHAME on them

[Admin]

Where has my post gone? Did you delete it Anna Moderator? That is unfair.
If a member here casts aspersions about the death of somebody, who IS dead, they should be called out on it! like I said, SHAME on them

It was removed as the original post was rightly deleted.

You were correct to point out that Guilhermino Encarnacao is deceased. He died on 26 February 2010 having sucuumbed to stomach cancer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/7384911/Home-Office-launches-secret-review-into-Madeleine-McCanns-disappearance.html

[mercury]

Ok and THANK YOU!

Sorry to Anna too

[sadie]

Post is considered off topic.  So I have deleted.

sadie




Shame really ... but I guess mods are right. !!  They usually are.

[DCI]

More of Amarals pals in court, along with Dear Julia.

Julia Pinheiro in the court of Maia

it started this Friday, in the Maia Court, the trial that opposes the PJ inspector Ana Saltão against the host of the SIC tv channel Julia Pinheiro, the commentator Hernani Carvalho and the former inspector Carlos Anjos, for the crime of advertising and slander.

The investigator - acquitted of her husband's grandmother's murder, which occurred on November 21, 2012, with 14 shots - filed private prosecution against the three defendants and was accepted by a judge who recognized crime evidence and pronounced the "stars" of the station Carnaxide.

The case relates to the integrated line in "Dear morning" the SIC, in which Hernani Carvalho said cases of police that are part of today's agenda and where he addressed the issue of inspector of the Judicial Police of Porto, referring to Ana Saltão as "the author" of Montes Claros murder, and weave "some remarks" about her personality, reads the indictment.

The judge held that "the alleged facts" in the television line by Ana Saltão "are not limited to the [alleged] authorship of a crime of murder." "They are not under the public interest populist and sensationalist messages that appeal to free feelings of indignation and revolt", also notes the indictment.

Ana Saltão watched the programs from the jail of Santa Cruz do Bispo, where she was held, and felt "embarrassed, humiliated and soiled" by the comments triggered, had also to be isolated. In court, requires compensation of 50,000 euros.

Julia Pinheiro is in Maia to respond and defend the charges at the first hearing. The first session of the trial began at 9.30 am. The second session takes place this afternoon and continues in May 22.


http://www.jn.pt/PaginaInicial/Gente/Interior.aspx?content_id=4556497

[DCI]

http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/nacional/detalhe/paulo_pereira_cristovao_pediu_para_destruir_provas.html

6th May

Rui Martins, one of the key witnesses from ' Cardinal ' case, said this Wednesday in court that the Sporting Vice President Paulo Pereira Cristóvão asked him to destroy evidence linked to the deposit in the account of the Assistant Referee José Cardinal.

"A day or two after I made the deposit in Funchal, Paulo Pereira Cristóvão told me to throw away the clothes and the hat I used and, after I questioned why, said only that paid me the value of clothing," said Rui Martins.

The former employee of Primus Lex, a company of Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, confirmed have traveled to Funchal, at the request of former Vice President ' Leo ', to make a deposit of 2000 euros, in cash, an account of which was only the Bank identification number (NIB).

"He ordered me to go to the Madeira make a deposit"
"The December 19, 2011, asked me personal data to buy airline tickets and ordered me to go to the Madeira to make a deposit," he explained, adding: "at his request I didn't sign my name on the deposit slip, made just a scribble (...) and when I returned to Lisbon handed the ticket at a desk ".

At issue is a 2000 EUR deposit made on account of Joseph Cardinal, days before a game between the Sporting and the sea, for which the Assistant Referee was appointed. Later he was sent an anonymous letter denouncing an alleged bribe to Cardinal, letter that the President of the Portuguese Football Federation, Fernando Gomes, would reach the judicial police, after the same have been delivered by the President of the ' Lions ', Godinho Lopes.

The witness explained that he only realised the scale of the problem months later, on the eve of the searches, when he saw a news story that spoke in that warehouse. "Joined the news to my going to Madeira. Questioned by Paulo Pereira Cristóvão message, which was in Bilbao, and he replied: ' tomorrow '. Never talked about, "he said.

Surveillance the footballers
Rui Martins, who in the video footage collected in Bank agency of Funchal comes up with his cap on his head and a coat, explained that Paulo Pereira Cristóvão Secretary handed him shortly after arriving in Lisbon, a sealed envelope to be delivered in the House of Paulo Pereira Cristóvão.

The witness said not knowing the existence of personal data lists of referees and players, but admitted to having done surveillance to three Sporting players: Jeffrén, Carrillo and Onyewu. " There were players who were more problematic, what was required of me was to see if they were at home after a certain time. I passed by the houses and via if there was light on and if the cars were parked, "he explained.

Rui Martins admitted that Paulo Pereira Cristóvão asked him to create a company, the Right Expert, which came through another company, Businlog, monies paid by Sporting for a follow-up of the assets of the Club.

Christopher "knew how to give back"
The Head Office of the Right Expert, who was actually a company managed by Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, was the home of the mother of Rui Martins. "My mother doesn't know how to read and write and Paulo Pereira Cristóvão knew that," said Rui Martins, confirming that the former Vice President of Sporting was the only moving company Bill that, in total, have received 57 thousand euros.

Rui Martins said agreeing to cooperate in the establishment of company for being in order to contract with Primus Lex and admitted that Paulo Pereira Cristóvão knew how to give back.

The Court, chaired by judge Marisa Arnedo, will continue to listen to the May 13 Rui Martins, in the morning and hear Godinho Lopes during the afternoon of the same day. The hearing of former President of Sporting was scheduled for today but was postponed due to lack of time.

Pereira Cristóvão, who is detained in prision de Évora since March 3 in the context of another process, is accused of a crime of swindling qualified, another of money laundering, two of embezzlement, another of wanton through illegitimate access, a computer and, finally, one of calumnious denunciation aggravated.

[Carana]

Thanks for the update, DCI. Cristovão seems to be in a bit of a mess at the moment, with another case pending as well.

[Brietta]

Thanks for the update, DCI. Cristovão seems to be in a bit of a mess at the moment, with another case pending as well.

I'm intrigued why the destruction of evidence in the form of the clothing worn was considered necessary.