Former PM to go on trial “urgently” in July, only to see process suspended to September
Operation Marquês has been inching towards trial date for a decade Former Socialist prime minister José Sócrates will begin his trial (for corruption) in Operation Marquês on July 3, in
Operation Marquês: Court orders case to ‘proceed immediately to trial’
Ten years after his arrest at Lisbon airport, the Operation Marquês case, with all its challenges and appeals, has finally come to an end – meaning former prime minister José
Sócrates trial yet to begin 10 years later as ex-PM insists he is innocent
Judges accuse Sócrates of “manifestly abusively and ostentatiously” trying to delay going on trial, while ex-PM has penned an article saying he is the victim of “political persecution” This Thursday
Supreme court overthrows Socrates’ appeal to remove judges
Portugal’s Supreme Court of Justice has rejected the request by former Socialist prime minister José Sócrates’ for the removal of two of the Lisbon Court of Appeal judges who decided
Court of Appeal throws new curved ball into Sócrates saga
The seemingly endless saga of litigation surrounding former Socialist prime minister José Sócrates – famously jailed in 2014/15 over a complicated corruption probe – hit another corner this week as
Former PM José Sócrates to face 22 charges from original Marquês case
Today was tipped as the day a judge would decide on whether or not the bombshell decision reached by Judge Ivo Rosa over Operation Marquês almost three years ago was
Former PM lodges “complaint against unknown people”
José Sócrates reacts in outrage to latest ‘news’ on his financial affairs Former prime minister José Sócrates was suddenly ‘back in the news’ last night with an investigation, undertaken by
José Sócrates gets his way: judge cited for abuse of power
In a week where over 157,000 votes were simply thrown away, and a European president was not allowed to board a plan because he was three minutes late, it’s perhaps
Portugal’s Public Ministry calls for ‘annulment’ of Judge Rosa’s controversial Marquês’ decision
Public prosecutors are calling for annulment of Judge Ivo Rosa’s controversial ‘instructional decision’ in which he tore into years of investigation into alleged political and institutional corruption, freeing most of
Hundreds of motorists honk horns in disgust in Lisbon and Viseu as petition to oust Marquês judge hits 170,000 signatures
Hundreds of motorists honked their horns in ‘disgust’ in Lisbon and Viseu yesterday over the ‘pardoning’ by Judge Ivo Rosa of former prime minister José Sócrates for various crimes of