Those working on Operation Marquis, the code name for the inquiry into the financial dealings of the former Prime Minister José Sócrates, have turned their attention to Vale do Lobo in the Algarve.
At a recent questioning in Lisbon, José Sócrates was asked to explain a decision by the Council of Ministers in 2007 which approved an altered land usage plan for the Algarve, and its possible connection with money transfers made in 2008 and 2009 to an account in Switzerland.