- João Cravinho
João Cardona Gomes Cravinho (b. 1940s) is a Portuguese politician. He served, among other positions, as member of the Portuguese Parliament (1979-1983, 1985-1989 and 1999-2002), member of the
European Parliament (1989-1994), and as the Portuguese Territory Administration Minister between 1995 and 1999. He is a member of the PS political party. Cravinho has a degree inengineering .In 2004, after the eruption of several corruption scandals involving people and institutions ranging from mayors like
Fátima Felgueiras to football clubs ("Apito Dourado "), former Minister João Cravinho noted:The political system has shown little efficiency in fighting corruption, tax evasion, and fraud. The successive governments did not engage themselves in that fight. Why? Because they want to win the elections… This is a fatal error that we should urgently terminate.
In 2006, as a socialist deputy João Cravinho was preparing a new set of proposals in order to improve the legal framework of corruption crimes, which included the investigation of someone, when that person's assets doesn't match with his/her declaration of income. The proposal was rejected by the
Portuguese Parliament . Shortly after, Cravinho resigned from the parliament and went to England where he had been appointed administrator inThe European Bank for Reconstruction and Development by thePortuguese Government headed by socialistJosé Sócrates .
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