The 2004 purchase of two submarines from a German consortium that includied Ferrostaal, was eased through by the payment of €6.4 million in bribes to establishment figures in Portugal.
People linked to the PSD/CDS-PP government and to the Portuguese Navy received €1.6 million each to ‘facilitate business’ with the German submarine consortium.
The submarine scandal goes back to 2004 when the then Defence Minister Paulo Portas* authorised the €900 million deal. ‘Der Spiegel’ magazine reports that all the ‘stakeholders’ in the business received the same bribe of €1.6 million.
In addition to the four Portuguese figures there is Jürgen Adolff, the former Honorary Consul of Portugal in Munich, who was convicted in March 2014 and sentenced to a two year suspended sentence.
The bribes were in return for arranging a meeting between a director of Ferrostaal and the then Prime Minister, Barroso.
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