Amadeu Guerra

But investigating this kind of wealth is causing an absolute civil war within the justice system itself.

Público is reporting today that Prosecutor General Amadeu Guerra is actively fighting against judges who are annulling these overly long investigations.

This is a huge story in legal circles right now.

Yeah.

It's a necessary protection against state tyranny, so judges are looking at the calendar, seeing that statutory deadlines have passed, and they're just throwing the cases out.

I mean, I understand the right to a speedy trial, I really do, but investigating a guy who has 20 million euros in seized assets and ties to massive public infrastructure projects, that isn't exactly a weekend project for the police.

No, exactly, and that is Amadeu Guerra's central argument here.

The justice system was built for analog crimes, you know, a robbery, an assault, and it operates on strict analog deadlines.

Which makes this next headline absolutely infuriating.

We just talked about losing €21 billion of public wealth, and yet today's papers announce that Amadeu Guerra, the new attorney general, has just extinguished the specific anti-fraud group dedicated to monitoring EU funds.

Yeah.

Like the exact European money meant to rebuild our economy right now.