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Portugal ex-PM Socrates to face trial for alleged money laundering; graft charges dropped By Catarina Demony Portugal s former PM Socrates attends court hearing in Lisbon LISBON (Reuters) -More than six years after his arrest in a major corruption investigation, Portugal’s former Prime Minister Jose Socrates will stand trial, but only on lesser charges of money laundering and falsifying documents, a judge in Lisbon ruled on Friday. In a decision that sent shockwaves through the country, Judge Ivo Rosa of Portugal’s highest criminal court dismissed the corruption accusations against Socrates, 63, as weak, inconsistent or lacking sufficient evidence, and noted that the statute of limitations had run out on some of them. ....
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