The Supreme Court of Justice (STJ) rejected this Wednesday, February 11, the appeal of former Prime Minister José Sócrates in Operation Marquês which challenged the change in the classification of the crimes he was accused of by the Lisbon Court of Appeal.
The STJ rejected the appeal, considering it to be out of time and pointing out that it was legally inadmissible to present it.
At issue is an appeal by José Sócrates against the decision of the Lisbon Court of Appeal (TRL), of 2024, which recovered the accusation from the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) that the then investigating judge Ivo Rosa had dropped, particularly with regard to a change in the legal classification of the crimes with which the MP accused him.
The ruling on 22 crimes by the group of TRL judges contained changes in the classification of corruption crimes, which went from corruption to a lawful act to corruption to an unlawful act.
The change in qualification implied changes in the statute of limitations for these crimes and the applicable criminal framework, providing for a prison sentence of eight years and a statute of limitations of 10 years.
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