Police investigate the public school scandal of ex-socialist gevernment

José Sócrates, ex-PM,

founded a State company to modernise public schools,

with tax-payers´ money,

which transformed into a company of greed and corruption.

Today, Nuno Crato, sacked all the administrators,

as police start investigating serious indications of possible criminal action.

Nuno Crato reveal the shocking facts this week in Parliament.

In March 2007, José Sócrates announced with pomp and circumstance,

that the new company would modernise 332 schools at a total cost of €940 million,

but in 2011 the cruel reality became more than clear:

the modernization in 105 schools had cost

more than 3,168 million euros.

In 2007, the estimated cost per school had been 2.82 million euros.

In 2011, the average cost to modernize a school cost the State

more than 15.45 million euros!

DIAP (Department of Investigation and Penal Action) are investigating

false documents and payments for work which was never done and other irregularities discovered by the Finance Inspection.

At the newly "modernised" schools there are innumerous complaints

about modern electrical appliances that do not function,

classrooms without any natural ventilation,

completely dependant on air conditioning, which doesn't work,

making classrooms frozen in winter and hotter than ovens in summer.

In one school, in Tomar, 12 lamps by famous designer Siza Viera,

cost 20 thousand euros.

Viva Minister Nuno Crato, for having had the courage to get rid of these corrupt administrators and reveal the extent of yet another enormous scandal,

committed by the corrupt socialist government of ex-PM José Sócrates.