The information was transmitted this Wednesday to journalists by the TS spokesperson, Leandro Lopes, noting that, that body issued on Tuesday the order for the definitive release of the former minister, who had been on parole since December 2022.
"Yesterday (Tuesday) a release warrant was issued for Augusto Tomás, already notified this morning, and now he has his definitive release. He was on parole and now he has definitive freedom," he said.
In the Supreme Court's ruling, dated December 28, 2022 and to which Lusa had access at the time, "conditional release was granted to the inmate Augusto da Silva Tomás, for the time remaining to serve the sentence of five years, three months and 22 days in prison."
The sentence of Augusto Tomás – sentenced by the Supreme Court in August 2019, to 14 years in prison, as part of the trial of the well-known "National Shippers Council case" (CNC), a sentence that was reduced by the Supreme Court plenary to seven years and one month in prison – ended, according to the ruling, on January 10th.
Residing in Luanda and paying full compensation to which he was sentenced were the obligations imposed on Augusto Tomás during the probation phase.
Augusto Tomás was Minister of Transport between 2008 and 2017, and responded in court for the crimes of embezzlement, violation of the rules for implementing the budget plan on an ongoing basis, abuse of power on an ongoing basis and economic participation.
The former Minister of Transport was acquitted of the crimes of money laundering, criminal association and the crime of participating in a business, due to lack of evidence.
