The Portuguese Police has launched a operation for alleged corruption crimes linked to the sector lithium and green hydrogen and that have involved searches in several ministries and in the official residence of the Prime Minister, António Costa.
The inspections have also been extended to the Ministries of Infrastructure and the Environment and have led to several arrests.
Among them, that of Costa’s chief of staff, Vítor Escária, that of a Costa consultant, Lacerda Machado, and that of the mayor of Sines, the socialist Nuno Mascarenhas, according to the Portuguese media Público.
The investigations have also put in the spotlight the work of the Minister of the Environment, Duarte Cordeiro, and his predecessor in office, João Pedro Matos Fernandes, as well as the current head of the Infrastructure portfolio, João Galamba, also noted. in this case, according to ‘Publico’.
The cause would be the lithium exploitation projects in Montalegrein the north of Portugal, for a possible favor from the Portuguese Government to companies, according to the Portuguese press.
Source: Lasexta
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