The president of the PSD, Luís Montenegro, defended this Friday an investigation into all Russian investments in Portugal “up to the last of its ramifications”, with the necessary consequences.

I don’t have any particular information about it, but I think that all these operations should be investigated to the last of their ramifications and, naturally, they should have consequences.”

Luís Montenegro was responding to journalists on the sidelines of the inauguration of the 30th Chestnut Festival in Sernancelhe, district of Viseu, on the evidence of money laundering in Portugal by Russian citizens who evaded European Union sanctions (HEY).

“The sanctions mechanism that the EU has adopted against Russia is a fundamental instrument to put pressure on the Russian Federation to have a solution to this absurd conflict, this ignoble conflict of the invasion of Ukraine with all the horror that has spread throughout the territory”, he considered. .

In this sense, the leader of the PSD defended that “everything that the EU states can do to implement these sanctions and be able to avoid such abusive behavior is little.”

Luís Montenegro defended that it is also little if one takes into account “the attack on the most elementary values ​​of human dignity and democracy that Russia is operating in Ukrainian territory.”

CNN Portugal reported this Friday that “a lot of evidence of a very deep participation, of a lot of money involved” of “luxury investments by the Russians in Portugal” was found.

Montenegro concerned about the arrival of Timorese refugees in Portugal

Luís Montenegro, showed this Friday “a lot of concern” about the arrival of “large thousands” of East Timorese in Portugal in recent weeks, and said that the Government must have a “rapid intervention” in this matter.

“I see it with great concern. We have been following very closely this situation that already involves many thousands of Timorese brothers, this is how we must treat them and it is imperative that the Government has a word there and a very immediate intervention”, he said. that the PSD has defended the importance of an emigration policy.

“For many months I have defended the need to have a comprehensive policy and a national program for the reception and integration of emigrants, although this is an exceptional case,” he said.

Even so, he defended, if the country had “this developing policy, it would be easier” now “to respond, precisely, to the drama that has been felt in recent days” of the arrival of East Timorese in Portugal.