The Portuguese prosecutor’s office He acknowledged this Sunday that he confused the Minister of Economy in a transcript of wiretaps about the corruption case that caused an early election in Portugal. Antonio Costa Silvawith the country’s prime minister, Antonio Costa.

“It was Dr. (Diogo) Lacerda Machado who informed the Public Ministry that There was indeed a lapse and the Public Ministry has recognized it“, explained in statements to the press the lawyer Manuel Magalhães e Silva, representative of Lacerda Machado, quoted by the Portuguese newspaper ‘Público’.

It is about listening to the lawyer and consultant Diogo Lacerda Machado, considered a friend of Prime Minister Costa, who spoke with the former administrator of the Start Campus, Afonso Salema. This asks Lacerda to contact the Government to get the economic activity codes for data centers changed.

“What Dr. Lacerda Machado says is that if it is with the Ministry of Finance, we must speak with Fernando Medina and that if it is with the Ministry of Economy, ‘I will arrange a way to speak with António Costa.’ Now this is absurd. If Dr. Lacerda Machado wants to talk to Dr. António Cósta, he picks up his cell phone and speaks. What they wanted was to speak with the Minister of Economy, António Costa Silva,” explained Magalhães e Silva.

The lawyer has highlighted that this was the only hearing in which Lacerda Machado referred directly to the prime minister, Antonio Costawho resigned last Tuesday as a result of these suspicions of corruption.

“The lapses obviously have no seriousness when they are involuntary (…). Whether it was intentional or not, I cannot say insults about the Public Ministry,” he added. In the investigation, they have been found envelopes with more than 75,000 euros in cash in the office of António Costa’s chief of staff, Vítor Escária, in the official residence of the prime minister, allegedly linked to crimes of prevarication and corruption related to the lithium and green hydrogen sector.