Among the main people involved were Fernando Medina, as former mayor of Lisbon, the Minister of the Environment Duarte Cordeiro and former PSD deputy Sérgio Azevedo.

[7] Through dozens of telephone tappings as well as hundreds of emails seized from Medina "with criminal relevance", according to TVI, the evidence of the Judiciary Police and the prosecutor Andrea Marques in relation to the cases under investigation, where Duarte Cordeiro, incumbent Minister for the Environment – Medina's number 2 in the Lisbon Chamber – is considered suspect.

A regime pact described by the PJ in a case that started with local mayors and senior officials, but which extended to the socialist summit in the Lisbon Chamber, in 2017. friends companies in direct adjustments.

These schemes were only possible through the control of certain Parish Councils in the Capital – some belonging to the PSD, such as Estrela, Santo António or Areeiro; and others from Socialist Party.

According to the thesis of the investigation, Fernando Medina would have made a secret agreement, or non-aggression pact, with PSD officials, six months before the elections, in order to present “bad candidates” , an expression derived from a telephone tapping of Sérgio Azevedo, from the Social Democratic Party).