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Henrique Salinas, Partner responsible for the Criminal Law & Compliance area of CCA Law Firm CCA, in statements to ECO-Advocatus, comments on the EDP case and the coercion measures that will be known today, June the 4th, after the interrogations of judge Carlos Alexandre, António Mexia, and João Manso Neto. EDP’s CEO, António Mexia, is suspected of four crimes of active corruption and one crime of economic participation in business.
According to the CCA Partner, "coercive measures are subject to the principle of legality, which implies that only those provided for by law can be applied. In any event, the suspension of the exercise of functions is one of the measures provided for in article 199 of the Criminal Procedure Code, its application, in this case, is therefore possible". However, he adds that "it only makes sense to apply this coercive measure when recent facts are in play, practiced in a repeated and current way in the exercise of the functions in question, provided that it is demonstrated, in concrete terms, that it is essential to ward off such dangers".
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