José Sócrates, ex-prisoner, ex-socialist PM
Manuel Pizaro, ex-secratary of State of the Health Services
Paulo Lalanda de Castro, ex-president of the pharmaceutical
Octapharma in Portugal
Luis Cunha Ribeiro, ex-president of INEM
(emergency first responders)
Paulo Lalanda de Castro was arrested today in Germany,
after he resigned yesterday from the pharmaceutical company, Octapharma,
which is involved in the international scandal,
of blood plasma and derivatives in Portugal.
Luis Cunha Ribeiro, ex-president of INEM,
an emergency service of ambulances and specialised personel
as first responder in cases of disaster, accident or illness.
Manuel Pizaro, ex-secretary of State of the Public Health System,
in the socialist governance of José Sócrates.
During Pizaro's "reign" a monopoly contract drawn up, where
ONLY Octafarma could supply blood plasma to the public state health system.
When he left his department, he took ALL compromising document with him,
so as to cover-up all links to this corrupt business.
Thousands of blood donors in Portugal had their donated blood
simply thrown away and destroyed,
so that Octafarma could import foreign blood plasma and derivatives.
In 2008, Socialist Secretary of Health Manuel Pizarro
signed an order that allowed hospitals to make individual purchases,
as there were an avalanche of direct adjustments in this area,
with the market dominance of Octapharma,
implementing an aggressive economy,
with lower prices than its competitors
and the "lobbyist" profile of Lalanda e Castro.
From 2012 onwards, there were tenders and supply agreements.
The contracts entered into with Octapharma between 1999 and 2005
- with an estimated total turnover of more than 137 million euros,
there are strong indications of crime.
Under the "O-Negative Operation",
the former president of the Regional Health Administration (ARS)
of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo, Luis Cunha Ribeiro, was detained.
The drugmaker, Lalanda de Castro and Cunha Ribeiro
are suspected of having set up a scheme that allowed Octapharma
to have the monopoly of plasma supplied to the National Health Service (SNS).
Although the investigation is already at an advanced stage,
it has not yet been possible to determine with certainty
all the alleged bribes that have been paid,
and a money laundering scheme is being investigated.
Other elements that have participated in this crime
are also being identified.
At stake in this investigation,
are suspected "crimes of the practice of active and passive corruption,
undue receipt of advantages and money laundering."
The Attorney General's Office (PGR) confirmed
that in addition to the searches in the national territory (two searches)"
other searchs were carried out in Swiss territory,"
a country where Lalanda de Castro supposedly lives.
According to the "I" newspaper,
the researchers consider asking for the cooperation
of the authorities of other countries, like Brazil.
Up to date, no elements have been collected from Operation Marquês,
(the corruption case in which José Sócrates are involved in)
although there are several links
as references in conversations heard
with the administrator of Octapharma.
Cunha Ribeiro and Lalanda de Castro has been friends for more than 20 years.
The mother of the manager of Octapharma
directed the hospital pharmacy of the Hospital de São João in the 80's,
where Cunha Ribeiro was head of the immuno-haemo-theraphy service
and held the position of clinical director
until being transferred to Lisbon to head INEM
and Regional Administration Of Health of Lisbon and the Tagus Valley,
In 2004, already in Lisbon, Cunha Ribeiro
moved to an apartment in the Heron Castilo building,
the same building where José Sócrates
and his mother acquired an apartment in 1998.
The apartment in question was owned by the company Convida,
which belonged to Lalanda de Castro.
The "renting" of this apartment to his friend was in 2013,
the subject of a complaint from the current syndicate of staff nurses,
Ana Rita Cavaco, to the DIAP de Lisboa,
who considered the fact incompatible for the president
of the ARS of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo -
entity responsible for tenders for the acquisition of medicines
- to live in an apartment which belonged to a pharmaceutical company.
Cunha Ribeiro moved out of the apartment
at about the same time that Lalanda de Castro
was constituted as an accused in the "Marques operation".
Although there was a leasing contract to the apartment,
there is NO evidence of any rent ever paid.
The former INEM president, Cunha Ribeiro,
have also used a luxury car, as well as luxury trips
at the expense of Octapharma multinational Pharmaceuticals,
Luís Cunha Ribeiro will continue to be heard on Thursday
on suspicion of corruption in the blood plasma business.
Investigators are searching for lost documents
with decisions taken during the time when José Sócrates
was the Prime Minister.
The investigation believes that these luxury perks,
were received by Cunha Ribeiro,
as counterparts for favouring Octapharma in Public State tenders,
as well as the use of a luxury apartment in Lisbon.
While Luis Cunha Ribeiro continues to be questioned by the authorities,
the investigation is looking for a folder that disappeared
from the Ministry of Health
about a lawsuit involving the multinational, Octapharma.
According to the "Correio da Manhã" newspaper, in 2008,
the then Secretary of State for Health, Manuel Pizarro,
vetoed the attempt to contest a competitor of Octapharma,
but the process file, with the political decision,
is nowhere to be found.
Some documents are also missing from the INEM,
reports the newspaper.
When José Sócrates was defeated in general elections,
Lalanda de Castro gave him a job in Octapharma,
with a salary of 12,000 euros per month,
which is part of the corruption case
being investigated by The Attorney General.
When José Sócrates was defeated in general elections,
Lalanda de Castro gave him a job in Octapharma,
with a salary of 12,000 euros per month,
which is part of the corruption case
being investigated by The Attorney General.
Lalanda de Castro,
who is already involved in the "Operation Marques"
of corruption, fiscal fraud and money laundering case,
as well as the corruption case of "Operation Golden Visas,"
resigned from his duties at Octapharma
and was arrested in Germany today!!
137 million Euros and Portuguese blood donors' blood thrown away,
so as to favour a multinational Pharmaceutical company,
is the way how the socialists,
actively participates in DESTROYING the State Public Health Care!
137 million euros out of the tax payers pockets while these corrupt
Lalandas, Cunha Ribeiros, Manuel Pizaros and José Sócrates in politics,
live in luxury, while ruining the country,
They are all connected by an infernal net of money laundering,
fraud and favouring of friends,
the Socialist Mafia of Portugal,
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