Portuguese police raided the official residence of the country’s Prime Minister Antonio Costa. he is writing El Mundo. According to the publication, joint investigative measures were carried out with the prosecutor’s office within the scope of the investigation into allegations of corruption.
As El Mundo notes, researchers’ attention has been drawn to lithium exploration in northern Portugal and a megaproject for the production of green hydrogen in Sines. Within the scope of the investigation, particularly the head of the Costa administration, Prime Minister Lacerda Machado’s advisor Vitor Escaria, and the mayor of Sines, Nuno Mascarenhas, were interrogated.
Environment Minister Duarto Cordeiro and Infrastructure Minister João Galamba, as well as former Environment Minister João Pedro Matos Fernandes, have been named as suspects in the case, sources said.
Previously in Portugal detained A man preparing to attempt to assassinate the president.