The Prime Minister said this Tuesday, April 14, that the interaction with the Entity for Transparency regarding Spinumviva takes place under the expected terms, reiterating that he anticipated the disclosure of clients due to the entity’s “exaggerated bureaucracies”.
In a response sent to Lusa, the Prime Minister’s office clarified that “the interaction with EpT is still ongoing, in accordance with the procedures under the entity’s responsibility”, but insisted that Spinumviva’s list of customers “corresponds to the list that was released in the statement from the Prime Minister’s Office on March 26, 2026, and which had already been delivered to EpT on April 29, 2025”.
“In this statement, the context of this process was explained and the publicity of the already known list of customers was anticipated so that it would not be dependent on exaggerated bureaucracy and operational difficulties of the EpT digital platform”, he highlights.
On March 26, the prime minister denied any intention to hide information from the Transparency Entity and released the list of 13 clients of his former company, Spinumviva, which he said was already known due to a “leak from parliament”.
In a statement from the prime minister’s office, Luís Montenegro stated that he had received in recent days “38 notifications from EpT which, in short, are intended to request a repetition of the information provided in April 2025”.
Montenegro indicated as clients of the company Spinumviva: Radio Popular, SA; Lopes Barata, Consultoria e Gestão, Lda; CLIP – Colégio Luso Internacional do Porto, SA; Ferpinta – Steel Tube Industries of Fernando Pinho Teixeira, SA; Solverde, Sociedade de Investimentos Turísticos da Costa Verde, SA; Cofina SA; Joaquim de Barros Rodrigues & Filhos Ltda Group, Rodáreas – Espaços de Serviços, Ltda; ITAU SA; Sogenave SA; Portugalenses Transportes SA; Beetsteel; INETUM PORTUGAL SA and Grupel SA.
Despite this, a day later the EpT clarified that the public disclosure of clients of the prime minister’s former company does not exempt him from his “declaratory obligations” and assured that the number of notifications sent complied with the law.
In response to Lusa about whether the disclosure made by the Prime Minister of Spinumviva’s client list responds to what was required, the Transparency Entity says that it is not up to it to “replace itself for holders in fulfilling their declaratory obligations” and that they must be the ones to “follow up” on the instructions given by Transparency.
Today, the EpT clarified that failure to comply with declaratory obligations may result in a complaint to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, but first the holder is notified for a hearing, and the expected sanctions do not apply to the Prime Minister.
In response to Lusa, after having invoked secrecy regarding the specific case involving the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, and Spinumviva’s clients, the Entity for Transparency (EpT) responded about the general regime applicable when a holder of a political position does not complete or correct the respective single declaration.
According to the Entity, when an incomplete or incorrect declaration is detected, clarifications are requested from the holder, who has ten working days to respond. If the situation persists, “the holder is notified”, under the terms set out in the EpT Statute “for the purpose of being heard for a period of 10 working days”.
If the situation still persists, the Transparency Entity communicates “to the entities that are responsible for applying sanctions to the holder or to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, whenever applicable, for the purposes of promotion with judicial entities”, he said.
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