PSD Wants to Hear from Government, BdP and Novo Banco Administration on Court of Audit Audit

The PSD will require parliamentary hearings of the government, the Bank of Portugal and the administration of Novo Banco due to the conclusions of the Court of Accounts of this banking institution, which the party considers “extremely disturbing”.

“It is extremely worrying that [a auditoria] concludes that public institutions have not protected the public interest and this implies billions of euros of government support for a private bank,” PSD Vice President António Leitão Amaro told Lusa after the report of the second audit of Novo Banco by the Court of Auditors.

António Leitão Amaru explained that in the next few hours, the PSD will send a request to those in charge of the Court of Accounts to go to Parliament to present and explain this second revision, as happened with the first one, already signaling the intention of his party. request hearings from the government, Banco de Portugal, the Settlement Fund and the administration of Novo Banco.