"No standards were met, the compensation paid by CP was, in my opinion, an act of mismanagement that was harmful to the public interest, done in total disregard for existing regulations and the austerity policy then applied by the Government to most workers," said Francisco Fortunato, in a hearing at the parliamentary committee on Economy, Public Works and Housing. The former logistics director of the company that repairs trains (EMEF) recalled that he had denounced the issue of the compensation paid to the then administrator of CP -- Comboios de Portugal in 2015, within the scope of a termination by mutual agreement, considering that the process has "nebulous contours". Francisco Fortunato recalled that, at the time, within the scope of the austerity policies of the government led by Pedro Passos Coelho, terminations by mutual agreement in public companies were only possible in very special cases, for people aged 55 or over, with permanent physical incapacity for the exercise of professional activity and in cases of termination of the job without the possibility of reconversion to other functions. "Cristina Dias' departure was not considered by the company as a very special case," stressed the former director of EMEF. Francisco Fortunato also pointed out that the initiation of a termination process by mutual agreement requires an opinion from a hierarchical superior. "Since Cristina Dias was an administrator, there was no hierarchy. Was it Cristina Dias who gave a positive opinion on Cristina Dias' departure from the company?" questioned the former official. The newspaper Correio da Manhã reported, on April 19, that Cristina Pinto Dias, current Secretary of State for Mobility, left CP in July 2015, with compensation of around 80,000 euros, and then went on to earn as administrator of the Mobility and Transport Authority (AMT), invited by the PSD/CDS-PP government, a salary and representation expenses in the order of 13,440 euros per month, almost double the 7,210 euros she received at CP. On the same day, at the Council of Ministers, led by the Prime Minister and focused on reducing IRS, this question was passed by Luís Montenegro to the Minister of the Presidency, António Leitão Amaro. "This is compensation equal to almost 400 workers and within a program that has been open for four years with rules applicable to everyone," said Leitão Amaro. The minister argued that Cristina Pinto Dias received her compensation based on 18 years of work at CP and that she was even given "the lowest of the two salaries that could be considered", as a senior technician and not as an administrator, a position she held when she left the company. Leitão Amaro also stressed that, as she left CP to join a regulatory body, "she lost the right to return to the company where she was to ensure ethics and seriousness". "There are no possible comparisons to scenarios discussed in the past," he said, in an implicit allusion to the case of former TAP administrator Alexandra Reis, who received around half a million euros, a case that ended up causing the resignation of the former Minister of Infrastructure and current Secretary-General of the PS Pedro Nuno Santos in the previous government. Read Also: Concurso para comboios para CP será parado se impugnação tiver provimento (Portuguese version)