Armando António Martins Vara (born 27 March 1954, Vinhais) is a Portuguese politician and banking administrator.
Throughout his life he was an employee at the state-owned bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos where he worked in several different positions ranging from clerk (it was his first job) to administrator (appointed in 2005, three days after had been awarded a degree in international relations by the Independente University[1][2]), and was member of parliament to the Portuguese Assembleia da República for several years.
In October 2009 it was reported that Vara is an arguido (formal suspect) in the Face Oculta scandal.
[6] He was again placed in custody on 9 July 2015, as part of the "Operação Marquês" operation, aimed at former Prime Minister José Sócrates.
José Sócrates was suspected of having favored a tourism business through a government plan, Vara at the time was director of the General Deposits, entity that financed that enterprise.