Fátima Felgueiras

Fátima Felgueiras

Maria de Fátima da Cunha Felgueiras (married de Almeida e Sousa) (born April 21, 1954 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is the mayor of the Felgueiras municipality, in northern Portugal.

Personal life

Fátima Felgueiras was born in Rio de Janeiro, then capital city of Brazil, from Portuguese parents. When she was 4 years old, the family returned to Portugal and settled in Felgueiras, northern Portugal. She studied in a secondary school of Guimarães and earned a degree in Germanic Philology from the University of Coimbra. Involved in local politics, Fátima Felgueiras was elected mayor of Felgueiras in 1997. Fátima Felgueiras has a daughter, Sandra Felgueiras, who is a well-known television reporter and journalist of RTP public service television network.

Corruption allegations

She was placed under investigation after a series of anonymous letters addressed to Cunha Rodrigues at the public prosecutor's office. The police inquiry produced more than 120 volumes. The mayor of Felgueiras, Fátima Felgueiras, hurried through the streets of the small northwestern Portuguese city in the early afternoon of May 5, 2003. She was late for a funeral. But before she arrived at the cemetery, she took a phone call, returned home—and disappeared. The then 49-year-old fugitive has been charged with 30 counts of corruption, embezzlement, prevarication and abuse of power and was suspected of managing a US$1 million "saco azul" (blue bag) to pay for her own electoral propaganda, Portuguese Socialist Party office rent and phone bills, her new Audi, among others. Felgueiras faced a possible 25-year sentence, according to the Guimarães Appeals Court (Tribunal da Relação de Guimarães). Seventeen other Town Hall employees and private entrepreneurs were involved in the scandal. Police sources said the mayor escaped to Rio de Janeiro (through Madrid and São Paulo) just before authorities received the warrant issued by the court. After several months in Brazil, and being the owner of a Brazilian passport, Fátima Felgueiras returned home to be arrested and released in less than 24 hours. She was re-elected for the Felgueiras Town Hall in October 2005, as an independent. [pt icon [http://dn.sapo.pt/2006/03/18/nacional/fatima_felgueiras_a_julgamento_acusa.html Fátima Felgueiras vai a julgamento acusada de 23 crimes] , 17th March 2006, Diário de Notícias]

The trial was set to start in February 2007 but the case didn't produce any effect so far.

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