Anonymous ID: eebe79 Dec. 15, 2021, 12:36 p.m. No.15198434   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Manuel Pinho, a former Portuguese economy minister embroiled in a corruption probe, was placed under house arrest until he is able to pay a 6 million-euro ($6.8 million) bail.

Pinho was detained on Tuesday in an investigation concerning alleged corruption linked to energy company EDP-Energias de Portugal SA

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-15/portugal-s-ex-economy-minister-pinho-placed-under-house-arrest

The prosecutor alleged that Pinho benefited personally when he approved a scheme to compensate EDP for parts of some power purchase agreements, and a 25-year extension of 27 dam concessions without public tender.

The public prosecutor said EDP subsequently sponsored a renewable energy course at a major U.S. university, taught by Pinho, as a reward.

Pinho: was economy minister between 2005 and 2009

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/portugals-former-minister-detained-for-alleged-corruption-in-edp-probe/ar-AARO2lv

Controversial hiring of Pinho by Columbia University

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Pinho

 

Portugal's main utility EDP said on Thursday that it changed the terms of a 10-year strategic partnership with its largest shareholder, China Three Gorges (CTG)

10 Dec 2021

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/portugals-edp-china-three-gorges-change-partnership-terms-2372281

Anonymous ID: eebe79 Dec. 15, 2021, 1:54 p.m. No.15198816   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Indicted Ald. Carrie Austin (34th) collapses in her seat at City Council meeting

Austin: Chicago’s second most senior alderperson

Austin has pleaded not guilty to charges that she took home improvement bribes — including new kitchen cabinets and granite countertops — from a developer seeking her help in navigating a project through the City Hall bureaucracy.

She is also accused of lying to FBI agents who sought to question her about the perks

https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2021/12/15/22838173/indicted-ald-carrie-austin-34th-city-council-meeting-health-faint-emma-mitts