Portugal.- La Justicia portuguesa deja en libertad a los acusados en la operación que aceleró la dimisión de Costa

April 27, 2016, Lisboa, Portugal: Lisbon-27/04/2016- In the Portuguese Parliament today, Diogo Lacerda Machado spoke at the Economy Committee about his role in the renegotiation of the TAP contract...(Archive).Diogo Lacerda Machado is, admittedly, António Costa's ''best friend'', to whom he was best man at his wedding. The relationship between the two goes back to their days at the University of Lisbon leer más Law School and continued over the following decades - it was with Diogo and his wife, Teresa Alvarenga, that António Costa and Fernanda Tadeu celebrated their wedding, at a reception in a hamburger restaurant in downtown Lisbon. The Socialist never gave up on him, despite his resistance to entering politics. This Tuesday, he was arrested...Lacerda Machado is part of the ''boys from Macau'' group. In 1988, Magalhães e Silva, a lawyer at the law firm of socialists José Vera Jardim and Jorge Sampaio, where Costa had worked as an intern, was appointed Deputy Secretary for Administration and Justice in Macau. He needed advisors and asked António Costa for advice, who recommended three names: Lacerda Machado, Eduardo Cabrita and Pedro Siza Vieira - the latter two would go on to become ministers in Costa's governments. leer menos

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