Luanda – Judge Advisor Agostinho Santos was suspended from Supreme Court for six months by Permanent Commission of the Superior Council for Judiciary (CSMJ).
In a press release, CSMJ alleges “repeated conduct” that call into question “the good name” of the courts.
CSMJ states that the decision followed a complaint by judges of the Constitutional Court, underlining that the repeated conduct of Judge Agostinho Santos calls into question the good name of the courts, as sovereign bodies (… ) and “to the targeted advisory judges, damaging (…) the essential dignity to the exercise of the functions”.
The source adds that the resolution, in force since the 19th this month, has as consequences “the total loss of the corresponding remuneration, seniority in the career.
Agostinho Santos is also banned from entering the Supreme Court premises”.
Source: Angola Press News Agency