In a statement, the Frente Cívica said that it wrote to Lucília Gago so that, if an investigation has already been opened, "the Public Prosecutor's Office will report on the steps it has taken in this case".
On August 28, BCG admitted that it paid bribes to win business in Angola. The bribes were paid through the office in Lisbon, according to an investigation by the United States Department of Justice (DoJ).
"Certain BCG employees in Portugal took steps to conceal the nature of the [bribed] agent's work for BCG when internal issues arose, including backdating contracts and falsifying the agent's purported work product," the DoJ said.
The facts made public by the North American authorities "constitute with a very high probability a crime of active corruption with harm to international trade", pointed out the Frente Cívica.
"These conducts must, therefore, be investigated and punished in Portugal, where they occurred, holding not only the agents who carried out the acts determined by the investigation by the US authorities responsible, but the company itself, within the scope of the criminal responsibility that it is responsible for", defended the organization.
According to a note published by BCG on its portal, between 2011 and 2017, some employees "improperly paid third parties to secure business".
The Frente Cívica highlighted that the company handed over bribes worth 4.3 million dollars to "a figure with links to the Angolan State to obtain contracts (...) with the Ministry of Economy and the National Bank of Angola".
In return, BCG obtained contracts worth 22.5 million dollars, the organization said.
"Upon discovering this, BCG promptly self-reported the matter" to the DoJ, reads the group's note, which "removed the individuals from the company and has since closed the office in Luanda, Angola".
As BCG took the initiative to report the case, it ended up reaching an agreement with the DoJ.
The group said the DoJ "declined to prosecute BCG (...) for conduct related to certain employee activities in Angola from 2011 to 2017." This decision was justified with BCG's "voluntary self-disclosure, full cooperation and compliance improvements," he explained.
In this agreement, BCG will return 14.4 million dollars, "which the DOJ calculated to reflect BCG's profits from impacted work in Angola".
The letter is signed by Paulo de Morais and João Paulo Batalha, president and vice-president of Frente Cívica, respectively.
