Ex-socialist ministers in the news today

The Business Journal reported today that former ministers of Public Works Mário Lino and António Mendonça and former Secretary of State Paul Campos have committed "crimes of harmful administration" in a complaint which the Automobile Club de Portugal (ACP) made to the Central Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution (DCIAP) of Lisbon, which is one of the elements related to the criminal investigation into the so-called Public-Private-Partnerships (PPP's).

In the complaint those above mentioned are expressly cited in the document as responsible of having committed the crime of harmful administration in an intentionally direct , intense, deliberately, free and conscious way in the document cited by the Business Journal.

According to the Daily News (Diario de Notícias), the former rulers may incur crimes of violation of rules and fiscal malfeasance and Morning Post (Correio da Manhã) writes, in turn, that the former Socialist party ministers that are being investigated in the case of the PPP's are suspected of the crime of fraud against the state and criminal association. 

According to CM these former ministers and Secretary of State are being investigated for having evidence of the crimes of fraud, corruption, conspiracy and money laundering.