The Polícia Judiciária[1] investigated the business group headed by Manuel Godinho, suspected of economic crimes and bribery of managers of public funds.
Godinho was arrested on October 28, 2009, in Aveiro, in relation to economic crimes involving an oxygen-treatment and environmental cleaning group.
Also investigated were GNR officers, town hall civil servants (most notoriously from the Gouveia Municipality), businesspersons (most prominently Manuel Godinho and his right-hand man, Namércio Cunha, a formal suspect and alleged liaison between Godinho and REN, the company led by José Penedos),[2][3] and former politicians - noted examples include Armando Vara (Millennium bcp) and José Penedos (REN).
[4][5] Former politician Armando Vara is reported by the police investigation to have had suspicious phone calls with the then Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates.
[7] Sócrates was subsequently arrested in November 2014[8][9] and indicted in a separate investigation.