Corruption

A leading Portuguese police inspector, who heads Portugal’s anti-corruption squad, says that the police are investigating how millions of euros that are invested in Portuguese football clubs come [...]

The former deputy mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia Town Council, Patrocínio Azevedo has denied that he received “a single red cent” from lawyer João Lopes to get real estate projects fast-tracked [...]

Portugal should urgently implement long-standing foreign bribery recommendations, says the OECD Working Group on Bribery   The 46-country OECD Working Group on Bribery is seriously concerned that [...]

Portugal’s Judicial Police (PJ) have swooped on communication and marketing companies owned by entrepreneur Luís Bernardo over suspicions of corruption and abuse of power. Some 34 search warrants [...]

Politics is important because it is the only way to counter the idea that politics is poor, politicians are corrupt and self-serving, that all politicians are the same, and the idea that politics [...]

Portugal’s Attorney General, Lucília Gago, is coming under increasing pressure from the Portuguese parliament and key political figures to give an account of herself over her handling of [...]

Portugal’s new Minister for Housing, Miguel Pinto Luz, says he is “completely calm” after police searches at Cascais Town Hall where he had been deputy mayor. Pinto Luz said had been in public [...]

With several often colourful high profile police operations investigating corruption in recent years making international headlines, the idea that Portugal is a corrupt country where politicians [...]

Vítor Escária, the man who stashed €75,800 in cash in his office at the Portuguese Prime Minister’s official residence at São Bento in Lisbon, has declare the money to the tax man. The cash was [...]

Portugal has dropped one position in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2023, published today by Transparency International (TI). However, it is still higher than Spain and Greece reports [...]