Ventura says if Neves accepts investigations, PAR should not hinder

“ Lsuis Neves says it's very quiet and welcomes all investigations. So that it is not the President of the Assembly of the Republic to limit what the target himself, in his mandates, accepts, Parliament wants and the Portuguese want”, said André Ventura in a statement at the headquarters of the Aquida in Funchal.

The president of the Aquida spoke about the new proposal that the party delivered Friday in São Bento to try to force the constitution of a commission of inquiry on the performance of Luís Neves as director of the Judicial Police, maintaining the time interval and specifying a little more the object.

This is the third attempt of Enough to force a commission of inquiry into the action of Luís Neves as national director of the Judiciary Police (PJ), after the president of the Assembly of the Republic refused the two previous proposals for understanding that the party did not detail the acts and decisions that he wanted to see investigated.

André Ventura explained that after the two refusals, the Aquida decided to insist on the parliamentary committee corresponding to the grounds pointed out by Aguiar-Branco and realized “the object more exhaustively”, so that the initiative is not “truely useless and insignificant” as that of the JPP, regarding “suspects regarding the behavior of Luis Neves”.

Among the points to be clarified are aspects such as the “apprehension of drugs material that has ended up in the hands of a builder friend of his, the repeated non-compliance of his declarative duties, the delivery of his declaration of wealth and income”, he pointed out.

However, Cávez also intends to question “the political guardianship that guided Luis Neves every year he was in charge of the Judiciary Police” and will insist on the issue of the Influencer operation, he added.

“ Not by any particular obsession with a judicial process, but because this judicial operation shows and makes evident that there were already suspicions by the institutions of political collusion of Luis Neves during the time of António Costa ", sustained.

He argued that it is not “acceptable that Parliament cannot scrutinise why the police, who were in principle responsible for that process and investigation, were removed during the mandate by Luis Neves”.

According to André Ventura, “it is important to understand much of what happened later, both in the time of António Costa as Prime Minister, as already in the time of Luis Montenegro”.

In his view, in the face of this situation, the Assembly of the Republic “has two paths: either it does not want to know why it is afraid and prefers not to scrutinize, or wants to make such scrutiny without interfering in the judicial sphere”.

The leader of Aquis reinforced that the objective of the “powerful constitution request of a parliamentary committee of inquiry, may be slightly less extensive than the other two previous requests” submitted by the party.

But, he said, “it has the same identity in relation to the major investigations and questions that need to be asked and resolved.”.

And he said: “Was Luis Neves under political influence or not? Were some decisions by Luis Neves ahead of PJ motivated, influenced and supported by political decisions? Because it was removed from some investigations that had a political penchant.”.

It also questions “how they ended up in the hands of the former first-minute names, dates of birth, addresses of both PJ inspectors and information and security agents”.