SIS has intervened in Tecnia /Ferreira Court case in force of authorizations based on the assumption that Tecnia /Erdevel case is involving "state secrets." This is a "privilege" that is used rarely in US, and with prudence, because of the strong roots of civil rights; such a use in Portugal for a fraud in indirect offset, that is treated at the same level of terrorists's and suspected terrorists's renditions, is absolutely out of any
state security logics.
The purpose of the state secrets privilege is to prevent courts from revealing state secrets in the course of civil litigation (in criminal cases, the Classified Information Procedures Act serves the same purpose). The government may intervene in any civil suit, including when it is not a party to the litigation, to ask the court to exclude state secrets evidence. While the courts may examine such evidence closely, in practice they generally defer to the Executive Branch. Once the court has agreed that evidence is subject to the state secrets privilege, it is excluded from the litigation.
The level of civil actions by Erdevel Europa - LGT and the request for Tecnia's bankrupcy by a shell company based in Liechtenstein is problematic. The disappearance of papers from the trial, the silence of Ferreira's lawyers about it, the presentation of fake and counterfeited documents by Erdevel, Lovells, and VdA, Pocalyko's patent and embarrassing perjuries in Torres Vedras Court, the involvement of a legal company paid by the state (Rui Pena, Arnault: a partner is secretly
in the Defense Commission and the other Partner is a former Minister of Defense) are the clear signs the SIS was involved in court. SIS is responsible, that is, there is no evidence of corruption of the judge. SIS intervention is unjust, but "legal," that is authorized by the executive branch. There is, however, a seriously illegal aspect of their intervention, that is, they should have claimed that it was no matter for civil/criminal courts, but a matter pertaining to the executive branch (PM, Defense minister, SIS, etc). Openly.
The reason why they did not claim secrecy privilege in court, forcing the end of the public trial, is at least based on two points:
1) There is an economic issue at stake, money for the damages they have provoked or they have permitted to be done to Tecnia and to your family. Culpa in vigilando, at least: they knew about the offset and the pre-offset, since they authorized and certified it.
2) There is a problem to claim state secret privilege for an environmental indirect offset, even if it is connected with 300 mil euro Portuguese purchase from Styer / General Dynamics.
SIS is extremely strong within Portugal's borders, with several dissuasions methods for journalists and lawyers. I still wonder how you have been able to put up with their pressure so far. Maybe you are more Portuguese than Isabel, Rui Vicente and Antero Luis, that is, you are more stubborn.
The illegality is that they are acting in this way because they want you to pay for other civil servants's mistakes in the evaluation of Pocalyko / Erdevel Europa indirect offset fraud, for the lack of supervision by CPC and Pedro Catarino, etc.
These are not unfortunate events, acts of God, or effects of the global economic crisis: Erdevel Europa is a planned fraud, still stealing money from Portugal's taxpayers (not only from you and your family).
This also implies personal responsibility by some civil servants and your rights to claim state compensation for what happened in the Erdevel Europa / LGT fraud.