Espinho. Montenegro spent 637 thousand euros building a house.

Luís Montenegro reveals that he spent €637,239.59 on the construction of the six-story house in Espinho, where he now lives with his family. The amount was revealed to Expresso.

The weekly magazine notes that the response came two and a half years after the newspaper first questioned the prime minister about the issue.

According to Montenegro's office, the value was determined from a survey conducted on the e-Fatura website by the Prime Minister himself in recent weeks. "It doesn't mean that the cost of the house was exactly this amount to the cent," the office says, admitting that "there may have been some additional invoices."

The amount mentioned by Luís Montenegro was spent between 2016 and 2021. There is also an additional 100,000 euros invested in 2015 in the purchase of the plot, where there was a vacant house.

The Expresso newspaper notes that, in invoices sent by the Tax Authority (AT) to the Public Prosecutor's Office, within the scope of a criminal case opened in 2023 at the Porto Regional DIAP (Department of Investigation and Prosecution), the identified contractor charged Montenegro 214,800 euros between 2017 and 2019.

Montenegro's office indicated to the newspaper that there was another contractor, other than Mota Oliveira, involved in the finishing phase of the project—but neither the contractor's identity nor the amount paid was revealed.

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