The judicial police arrested Daniel Litvak, the religious leader of the Jewish community in Porto, as part of an investigation into the acquisition of Portuguese citizenship by Sephardic Jews in Portugal. The information has been confirmed by Expresso.
At stake are the crimes of influence peddling, active corruption, document fraud, money laundering, qualified tax fraud and criminal association.
According to the “Publico” website, Daniel Litvak was preparing to travel to Israel, after the authorities considered him that there was a danger of his escape.
Judicial investigators reveal that following the searches carried out, “many documents and other evidence were confiscated for the purpose of analysis” and that the accused would be present at the first judicial interrogation to apply coercive measures.
One of the cases investigated by the Central Department for Investigation and Criminal Procedure (DCIAP) and the National Anti-Corruption Unit (UNCC) in the PJ is the granting of Portuguese citizenship to Russian businessman Roman Abramovich under the Sephardic Jewish Nationality Law.
In January, the Attorney General’s Office announced that the deputy had opened an investigation into the granting of Portuguese citizenship to the Russian millionaire.
“Throwing baseless theories about the tricks of Freemasonry”
After the opening of this criminal investigation, Daniel Litvak considered the investigations by the Public Prosecution Office, the Institute of Records and Notaries to be “positive” regarding the attribution of Portuguese citizenship, repeating the legitimacy of the testimony “to destroy the baseless theories about Masonic tricks and unclear business myths, which It may include bags of money.”
At the time, the chief rabbi of Porto’s Jewish community assured that “it will be confirmed that this is a citizenship process that complies with legal requirements and two payments of €250: registration fee and fee charged by the legalizing community”. “.
The religious leader of that community also noted that the complete documentation of the certification process for the granting of Portuguese citizenship to Roman Abramovich “has been in the possession of the Central Registry Office in Lisbon for a long time, based on the testimonies of the highest international Jewish institutions, with regard to legal standards”.
Meanwhile, Michael Rothwell, a member of the Porto Jewish Community Department, said that people from more than 60 countries have requested certificates for Portuguese citizenship under the Sephardic Jew Law. This Lusa official emphasized that only “purely Sephardic Jews of Portuguese origin could obtain the necessary certification” and that the process was “very rigorous.”
On Thursday, the UK government decided to block the assets of Roman Abramovich along with six other Russian rulers. His Chelsea accounts have been frozen.
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