This is another new piece of information uncovered by Manuel Pinho’s research. The former Minister of Economy founded a consulting company in July 2010, a year after leaving the Government of Socrates, after being hired by a Spanish subsidiary of Roland Berger Portugal to provide consulting services in Latin America and Africa.
Manuel Pinho received nearly 230 thousand euros between August 2010 and June 2013 for services for which Roland Berger himself “could not find documentation proving” the services actually provided by the former Minister of Economy.
Roland Berger, for his part, had been hired by Turismo de Portugal during Manuel Pinho’s mandate as Minister of Economy, to prepare, among other studies, the National Strategic Plan for Tourism (PENT).
As The Observer learned from sources at the then Ministry of Economy, it was Pinho himself who instructed Roland Berger to prepare the Tourism PENT of Portugal. The contract cost that public entity around a millions of euros between 2006 and 2008, it being equally true that the Brazilian subsidiary of the consulting firm hired Sebastião Pinho, son of the former minister, in 2007.
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Source: Observadora
