Former President and three members of the board charged with embezzlement in Madeira

O Prosecutor deduced accusation against a former president and three members of a parish council of Madeira, for crimes of peculato, prevarication and economic participation in business of political office holder, was today released.

On the website of the Attorney General's Office of the Republic of Madeira, it is read that the facts were “practiced between 2017 and 2021 (covering the municipal mandates of 2013-2017 and 2017-2021)”, without specifying which parish board the four defendants belonged to.

According to the elements of the charge made available, during the investigation, it was possible to verify that the then “president of the parish council, in the municipal mandates in question, practiced nine crimes of embezzlement of the holder of political office, coauthored material with another member of the board, however deceased, and nineteen crimes of peculato of political office holder, in material authorship”.

Three other members of the executive of this parish council were accused, “in coauthoring material, of a crime of embezzlement of political postholder”.

The prosecution points out that “the misuse of public funds to pay for the benefit of and for the benefit of others is a question of spending on tours, meals, trips and stays”.

It goes on to investigate acts such as “the hiring of a worker, the distribution of social support, the execution of expenses with the commemorative parties of the parish concerned, support for an association and the diversion of computer equipment”.

The MP indicates that the application for civil compensation against the defendants, representing the parish, has been deducted.

This investigation was conducted by the 1st Section of Funchal of the Department of Investigation and Criminal Action of the Madeira District, with the support of the Judicial Police (Department of Criminal Investigation of Madeira) and the Technical Advisory Center of the Attorney General of the Republic.