The former Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates faces a new trial, this time for "money laundering" crimes. This case emerges as another chapter in the extensive legal battle that the politician has been fighting with Portuguese justice in recent years.
The trial sessions are scheduled to begin on October 19. The trial will be presided over by a judge who has four years of experience in the magistracy, which has been highlighted as relevant information in the conduct of the case.
This new case adds to the previous ones already faced by Sócrates, who was prime minister of Portugal between 2005 and 2011. The money laundering accusation represents another front in the set of legal proceedings involving the former government official.
