The case became public in February when the current finance ministry found that between 2011 and 2015, when Paulo Núncio was secretary of state of tax affairs, the tax authority figures were not published with the amounts transferred offshore.

The statistics were only published again on the finance department portal following a decision by the current secretary of state of tax affairs after the ministry detected a total of about €10 billion, “that was not handled by the tax authorities”.

Because of the discrepancies, Rocha Andrade requested an audit which concluded that it was “extremely unlikely” that the IT fault that a enabled the money to go abroad was caused by a human hand, one of the hypothesis for the computer blackout.

Another conclusion was that the logs that are normally saved automatically had been successively ignores and were deleted.