SUN, STAR: 'Cristovao goes on trial' - organised home invasions, etc

Look how far back the corruption goes, Sabot - it's frightening.

It does indeed, Bonny. In fact, will they have a Police Force left by the time this has finished?

It would be interesting to know how The Cipriano and The McCann Case impacted on this. And then there was Jacinta Rees.

Oh, by the way, one of them was actually sent to prison.

IMO, today's PJ have a Herculean task ahead of them, cleaning up the mess left behind by their dirty predecessors.

It's utterly shocking, Bonny. The corruption is awful. But we now know who was running that country.

Can you imagine what the hate squad would have to say if Yard officers were involved in a tenth of this? We'd never hear the last of it.

Yet they're trying to pretend none of this was happening in Portugal. The Sun made it up

Despite it being all over the Portuguese media for months.

Anyway, it's not relevant.

Yes, just you keep telling yourselves that.

Competition time!

Who said,

A popular saying tells us that "the higher the rise, the bigger the fall", and the disaster was proportional to the size that the phenomenon had acquired in the meantime

Here's a clue. An 'author' said it in the course of slagging off the McCanns, with a pile of merde guaranteed to appeal to the ignorant, hate-filled and stupid.

Said 'author' has already been given a hefty suspended jail sentence for sport-related corruption and intimidation, and is now on trial for home invasions and assorted gangsterism charges.

Lady Karma sure is a bitch.

I wonder if he remembers saying that? The trouble with people like that, is of course, that they never catch the drift. But the tide has certainly turned for him. We just need a bit of Tick Tock now.

Oh the tick tock will be along soon, Sabot.  

http://www.cmjornal.pt/portugal/detalhe/pereira-cristovao-ganha-batalha-judicial-no-supremo?ref=Bloco_CMAoMinuto


Pereira Cristóvão wins judicial battle on Supreme

He was being tried for several crimes on the Campus of Justice.

By Magali Pinto | 15.02.17


The Supreme Court ruled that Judge Carlos Alexandre was pronounced null and void, which ruled, about two years ago, that the former vice-president of Sporting and former inspector of the Judiciary Police, Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, and 17 other defendants - between Three PSP agents - were to be tried for several violent crimes, including criminal association, robbery, kidnapping and possession of a prohibited weapon.

The council judges now decided - as Cristóvão's defense was asking - that the Central Criminal Investigation Court was not the competent court to pronounce Pereira Cristóvão and, therefore, must be repeated this procedural phase, as understood by university professor Rui Pereira .

The Lisbon Relation will have to send the file of the case to the Court of Criminal Investigation of Lisbon or Cascais and one of the two will be the territorially competent court. This means that the trial that takes place since June of last year at the Campus of Justice stands still. Pereira Cristóvão and the other defendants who were being tried in the context of this case, where Mustafa, leader of Juve Leo, stands out.

Is there any court in Europe as incompetent as Portuguese 'courts'? I really feel sorry for victims of crime in Portugal - their chances of seeing anything resembling justice seem to be slim indeed, especially when the accused is in the Old Boys' Club.

How can ANYONE be so incompetent as to hold a trial at the supposed 'wrong court'?

Must be great to be in the Portuguese Old Boys' Club, getting the finest court rulings funny handshakes can buy. All the time pretending to be a Troofseeker. Oh, and ever so Honourable.

I see he has such a smug look on his face.......

http://portugalresident.com/golden-visa-trial-finally-opens

I defy ANYONE to read that and still think Portuguese courts are unbiased and honest.

Oh, I do hope you haven't just insulted the 'honour' of the Portuguese legal system, Lily? That's good for twenty years hard labour!

In that case, Bonny..... and even

If you can make sense of it :


http://www.dn.pt/portugal/interior/relacao-de-lisboa-devolve-processo-de-pereira-cristovao-ao-tribunal-de-instrucao-5757634.html


Lisbon Report returns Pereira Cristóvão's case to the court of inquiry


Justice

MARCH 29, 2017
19:27


The trial, which runs from June 2016, has been suspended since February 16 of this year

The Lisbon Court of Appeals (TRL) returned Wednesday the case of Paulo Pereira Cristóvão and 17 other defendants accused of violent assaults on residences to the Central Court of Criminal Instruction (TCIC), to decide which court has jurisdiction.

In February, the Supreme Court of Justice concluded that the TCIC was not competent to carry out the investigation phase and bring the defendants to trial - giving effect to the appeal of the former Inspector of the Judicial Police Pereira Cristóvão - and referred the files to the TRL so that A new decision was rendered in accordance with settled case-law. "

In the decision, which the Lusa agency had access to, the Relation, in accordance with the STJ, declared the TCIC incompetent to proceed with the investigation phase and decided to return the file to "take a position on the jurisdiction of the criminal court where they should be In order to annul the acts that would not have been committed, if he had proceeded with the proceedings, and order the repetition of the acts necessary for the knowledge of the case. "

The judges judges Vasco Freitas and Rui Gonçalves did not fill in the part of the appeal of the defense of Pereira Cristóvão in which he claims to be the Court of Criminal Instruction of Cascais competent to carry out the investigation phase.

"[The TCIC] should refer the case to the court which it considers competent, since, in our view, this will only guarantee all the defendant's guarantees of defense, in particular his right of appeal, as regards the decision to be taken in respect of Jurisdiction, "according to the TRL judgment.

Once the competent court has been established, "it shall be incumbent on the judge to determine whether the acts committed may be annulled, which takes place simultaneously with the receipt of the case and the acceptance of jurisdiction", added the judges.

The trial, which has been held since June 2016 in Lisbon, has been suspended since February 16 of this year after the STJ's decision to send the case to Relação, which has now returned the case to the Central Criminal Investigation Court .

After prosecuting the prosecution, some of the defendants requested the opening of an investigation, but Judge Carlos Alexandre of the TCIC pronounced all the defendants to go to trial in the exact terms of the indictment.

The 18 defendants, including three policemen and leone Juve Leo cheerleader Nuno Vieira Mendes, known as Mustafa, respond by criminal association, robbery, kidnapping, possession of a prohibited weapon, abuse of power, violation of domicile by employee And document forgery.

According to the indictment, Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, a former PJ inspector and also a former vice-president of Sporting, two other defendants and the three police gathered information and decided which people and places to assault by the group, namely in the Lisbon area and the bank South of the Tagus River.

The information was then transmitted to the other elements, which formed the operational side of the alleged criminal network.

So, the trial of Gonzo's thuggish sidekick is back on? Did he run out of money with which to bribe the judges, or something?

Farcical.

http://www.cmjornal.pt/desporto/detalhe/paulo-pereira-cristovao-opoe-se-a-decisao-do-tribunal-da-relacao-de-lisboa


Paulo Pereira Cristovão opposes the decision of the Lisbon Court of Appeal

The Lisbon Court of Appeal returns a case to the Central Criminal Investigation Court.

04.04.17

Paulo Pereira Cristóvão's defense challenged the decision of the Lisbon Court of Appeals (TRL) to return the case, which has 17 defendants accused of violent robberies to the Central Criminal Investigation Court (TCIC).

On 29 March, the TRL, in accordance with the judgment handed down in February by the Supreme Court of Justice, declared the TCIC incompetent to proceed with the investigation phase, but decided to refer the case back to the TCIC for a ruling by the competent court.

According to the objection, which the Lusa agency had access to today, the defense of the former inspector of the Judiciary Police maintains that "it is a frontal violation of the law the decision to send the case to the TCIC,

In the impugnation sent to TRL, signed by attorneys Rui Costa and Paulo Farinha Alves, it is said that such a decision "conflicts (illegal and) frontally" with what determines the legislator: "Declared incompetent the court, the case is referred to the court competent".

"Contrary to what the legislature has determined, the appellant points out, by the contested judgment, that the case is referred to the court which has just ruled that it has no jurisdiction."

The judges judges Vasco Freitas and Rui Gonçalves claim in TRL's judgment that they will only return the case to the TCIC for it to decide which court will "guarantee all guarantees of defense of the defendant, in particular his right to appeal, Ruling on the jurisdiction in question ".

"The defendant takes note of the concern which has just been expressed as to his assurances of defense and his right of appeal. However, with all due respect, he will say that the contested judgment is based on incorrect premises, without legal support and without support In the facts passed in these proceedings, "counter the lawyers.

The defense of the former Inspector of the PJ argues that if the Lisbon Court of Appeal declared that the TCIC was incompetent - as it effectively did - "then it would have been limited to refer the case back to the competent court, , Did not ... yet. "

The lawyers set the example of two previous rulings of the Lisbon Relation in which they declared the TCIC "incompetent to carry out" the investigation phase of their respective cases, And immediately ordered the referral of the case to the competent court.

"To determine the referral of these appeals to the TCIC is, beyond a gross error of law, and a way of applying the law in an unconstitutional sense, a true legal nonsense," argue lawyers Rui Costa and Paulo Farinha Alves.

The defense of the former inspector of the PJ and former vice-president of Sporting requests that the TRL sends the files to the Court of Criminal Instruction of Cascais - court that they consider to be the competent one for the accomplishment of the instruction - and not to the TCIC.

The trial, which runs from June 2016 in Lisbon, has been suspended since February 16 of this year.

The 18 defendants, including three policemen and leone Juve Leo, Nuno Vieira Mendes, known as Mustafa, Respond by criminal association, theft, kidnapping, possession of prohibited weapon, abuse of power, violation of domicile by official and falsification of document.

According to the indictment, Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, a former PJ inspector and also a former vice-president of Sporting, two other defendants and the three police gathered information and decided which people and places to attack by the group, namely in the Lisbon area and on the bank South of the Tagus River.

Farcical - no point in expecting anything resembling 'justice' in Portugal. Especially when the accused is one of the funny handshake squad. Allegedly.

Oh, and it must be galling for all Portugal's many HONEST police officers and court officials, when they think they've finally got Cristovao and his gang of thugs bang to rights, to see legal tricks and delaying tactics being used to get the b*ggers off.

https://www.jn.pt/justica/interior/tribunal-anula-julgamento-de-paulo-pereira-cristovao-8796635.html


Justice

Court overturns trial of Paulo Pereira Cristóvão


September 25, 2017 at 14:06

The Court of Criminal Investigation of Cascais annulled the whole investigation phase and, consequently, the trial of Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, former inspector of the Judiciary Police, in a case with another 17 defendants accused of violent assaults to residences.

"I annul all the evidence produced in the investigation, as well as the instructional debate and the investigation decision, which, consequently, and in the face of a new production of evidence, must inevitably be repeated," said the order of the criminal investigation judge, Cristina Henriques Esteves , dated Tuesday and the one that the agency Lusa had access this Monday.

The trial, also now annulled, began in June 2016 at the Central Criminal Instance of Lisbon, but was suspended on February 16 of this year by the collective of judges, pending a decision of the Supreme Court of Justice, which would declare the "material incompetence" of the Central Criminal Investigation Court for the conduct of the investigation phase.

The defense of the former Judicial Police inspector had brought an action to annul the act that declared the investigation phase open, claiming "material incompetence of the Central Criminal Investigation Court" (TCIC) to deal with the crimes in question.

The defense stated that this phase should have been carried out by the Court of Criminal Investigation (TIC) of Cascais.

The appeal reached the Supreme Court, which granted it, declared the TCIC incompetent to carry out the investigation phase and referred the case to the Court of Appeals of Lisbon (TRL).

The TRL decided, in turn, to send the case back to Judge Carlos Alexandre, of the Central Court of Criminal Investigation, which sent them to the ICT of Cascais. This instance now nullified the whole process until the investigation phase.

"Declared incompetent of the TCIC, it is necessary to annul the acts that would not have been practiced if before this court they had run and ordered the repetition of the acts necessary to know the cause", underlines the dispatch of the ICT of Cascais.

"The evidence produced in the instruction was recorded, however, acts were practiced that we would not have practiced if before us had run the records, namely the hearing of witnesses who were heard during the investigation and the hearing of others whose interest is not seen in this instruction and especially for the discovery of the truth, "argues the criminal investigating judge.

The order states that the evidence, although recorded, was not produced before this court, which compromises a deeper knowledge of it, even if it does not legally make it impossible to conduct the instructional debate.

Regarding the documentary evidence produced, Cascais TIC understands that "it is not envisaged that it will have to be produced again", but "it annuls all the testimonial evidence and statements of the defendants produced in the instruction."

The Court of Criminal Investigation of Cascais also admitted the requests for the opening of the investigation presented by five of the defendants, and there are no dates for the beginning of the new phase of investigation, which aims to decide whether or not the defendants go to trial.

The 18 defendants, including three policemen and leone Juve Leo cheerleader Nuno Vieira Mendes, known as Mustafa, respond by criminal association, robbery, kidnapping, possession of a prohibited weapon, abuse of power, violation of domicile by employee and document forgery.

According to the indictment of the Public Prosecutor's Office, Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, a former inspector of PJ and also a former vice-president of Sporting, two other defendants and the three police gathered information and decided which people and places to assault by the group, namely in the Lisbon area and on the south bank of the Tagus River.

The information was then transmitted to the other elements, which formed the operational side of the alleged criminal network.

https://www.publico.pt/2018/01/05/sociedade/noticia/repeticao-da-instrucao-do-processo-de-paulo-pereira-cristovao-arranca-em-marco-1798287


JUSTICE

Repetition of the instruction of the process of Paulo Pereira Cristóvão starts in March

Former inspector of the Judiciary Police and 17 other defendants are accused of violent assaults on residences.

LUSA January 5, 2018, 5:35 p.m.


The Cascais Criminal Investigation Court (TIC) scheduled for March the new investigative phase of the process in which Paulo Pereira Cristóvão , a former inspector of the Judiciary Police, and 17 other defendants are accused of violent assaults on residences.

In September last year, the Cascais ITC annulled the investigation phase and, consequently, the whole trial that began in June 2016, following the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice declaring the "material incompetence" of the Central Court of Criminal instruction for the completion of the investigation phase, after appeal by the defense of Pereira Cristóvão.

Accordingly, the Cascais ITC marked the repetition of the instruction at the 9:30 am on March 2 - an optional phase that seeks to prove the prosecution of the Public Prosecutor or the filing of the case - on the day that seven witnesses are to be heard and the hearing a defendant who has expressed a willingness to speak, explained this Friday to the agency Lusa judicial source. The training debate was scheduled for March 9.

Although the process belongs to the ICT of Cascais, this new phase of investigation, in which it will be decided whether or not the defendants go to trial, will be held in the Court of Sintra due to the high number of defendants.

In September of last year, the ICT of Cascais annulled the previous stage of instruction and, consequently, the trial. "I annul all the evidence produced in the investigation, as well as the instructional debate and the investigation decision, which, consequently, and in the face of a new production of evidence, must inevitably be repeated," said the order of the criminal investigation judge, Cristina Henriques Esteves , to which the agency Lusa had at the time access.

The judgment, also annulled, began in June 2016 at the Central Criminal Instance of Lisbon, but was suspended on 16 February last year by the panel of judges, pending the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice, which would later declare "Material incompetence" of the Central Criminal Investigation Court for the conduct of the investigation phase.

The defense of the former Judicial Police inspector had brought an action to annul the act that declared the investigation phase open, claiming "material incompetence of the Central Criminal Investigation Court" (TCIC) to deal with the crimes in question. The defense stated that this stage should have been carried out by the Court of Criminal Instruction of Cascais.

The appeal reached the Supreme Court of Justice, which declared the TCIC incompetent to carry out the investigation phase and referred the case to the Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa (TRL). The TRL decided, in turn, to send the case back to Judge Carlos Alexandre, of the Central Court of Criminal Investigation, who referred them to the ICC in Cascais. This court annulled the whole process up to the investigation phase, including the trial, and ordered the repetition of the investigation phase.

The Cascais ICT also admitted the requests for the opening of instruction presented by five of the defendants.

The 18 defendants, including three policemen and leone Juve Leo cheerleader Nuno Vieira Mendes, known as Mustafa, respond by criminal association, robbery, kidnapping, possession of a prohibited weapon, abuse of power, violation of domicile by employee and document forgery.

According to the indictment of the Public Prosecutor's Office, Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, former inspector of PJ and also former vice-president of Sporting, two other defendants and the three police gathered information and decided which people and places to assault by the group, namely in the Lisbon area and on the south bank of the Tagus River. The information was then transmitted to the other elements, which formed the operational side of the alleged criminal network.

Dare one hope that it will go ahead this time? More to the point, dare one hope he will be convicted?

https://www.publico.pt/2018/03/09/sociedade/noticia/mp-pede-novo-julgamento-para-paulo-pereira-cristovao-e-outros-17-arguidos-1806061

JUSTICE

MP asks for new trial for Paulo Pereira Cristóvão and 17 other defendants

In the investigative debate, which took place this Friday in the Sintra Court, the Public Prosecutor's Office defended that the defendants did not present anything that "uproots the accusation".

LUSA March 9, 2018, 6:11 PM

The Public Prosecutor's Office (MP) wants Paulo Pereira Cristóvão , a former inspector of the Judiciary Police, and 17 other defendants accused of violent assaults on residences in Lisbon and Cascais to be tried again for the facts that appear in the indictment.

The case returned to the investigation phase, after last September the Court of Criminal Investigation of Cascais annulled the first investigation and, consequently, all the trial that had begun in June 2016, following the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice, who declared the "material incompetence" of the Central Court of Criminal Instruction to carry out the investigation phase, after appealing the defense of Paulo Pereira Cristóvão.

In the investiture debate, which took place on Friday at the Sintra Court, the prosecutor of the MP said that at this stage of the investigation, which is optional and that seeks to prove the prosecution of the MP or the closure of the case, the defendants did not submit anything that " the accusation ".

Robbery, kidnapping, criminal association

In that sense, the magistrate defended that the 18 defendants be pronounced [follow for judgment] in the exact terms of the prosecution order of the Public Ministry, which describes seven assaults or robberies in Lisbon and Cascais.

Pereira Cristóvão is accused of two felonies of qualified robbery, one in attempted form, four crimes of kidnapping, two crimes of usurpation of functions, two crimes of detention of prohibited weapon and of a crime of adhesion to criminal association.

The lawyer of the former PJ inspector and also former vice-president of Sporting asked for his constituent not to be pronounced [not to be judged] by these 11 crimes.

Rui Costa Pereira admits, however, that the criminal investigating judge Cristina Henriques Esteves changes the "degree of participation" of his client "to complicity in the only crime that is indicated practiced."

In addition to Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, four other defendants filed applications to open an investigation.

Some of the lawyers have requested that their constituents not "pronounce", while others have admitted that their clients may be tried again, but have asked the judge to make changes to the facts that appear in the indictment of the MP that, according to the reality.

Although the case belongs to the Court of Criminal Investigation (TIC) of Cascais, this new phase of the investigation took place in the Tribunal of Sintra due to the high number of involved.

Judge Cristina Henriques Esteves scheduled the reading of the investigation decision at 2:00 p.m. on April 19.

However, since most of the defendants, including Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, today asked the court not to be present in the reading of the investigation decision, this session will be held in the ICT of Cascais.

The first trial, which had since been annulled, began in June 2016 at the Central Criminal Instance of Lisbon, but was suspended on 16 February last year by the group of judges , pending a decision by the Supreme Court of Justice, which was to declare the "material incompetence" of the Central Criminal Investigation Court for the conduct of the investigation phase.

18 defendants, including three policemen

The defense of the former Judicial Police inspector had brought an action to annul the act that declared the investigation phase open, claiming "material incompetence of the Central Criminal Investigation Court" (TCIC) to deal with the crimes in question. The defense stated that this stage should have been carried out by the Court of Criminal Instruction of Cascais.

The 18 defendants, including three policemen and leone Juve Leo cheerleader Nuno Vieira Mendes, known as Mustafa, respond by criminal association, robbery, kidnapping, possession of a prohibited weapon, abuse of power, violation of domicile by employee and document forgery.

According to the indictment of the Public Prosecutor's Office, Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, a former inspector of the PJ and also a former vice-president of Sporting, two other defendants and the three police gathered information and decided which people and places to assault by the group, namely in the Lisbon area and on the south bank of the Tagus River.

The information was then transmitted to the other elements, which formed the operational side of the alleged criminal network.

Thanks for all the effort, Max.