Corruption

The General-Secretary of Lisbon City Council, Alberto Laplaine Guimarães, one of four detained in Operation “Lúmen” which is investigating alleged economic crimes in contracts for the [...]

Portugal’s Constitutional Court has rejected a final and last-ditch appeal from a former secretary of State and bank director Armando Vara, who will now return to the prison where he has been [...]

Opinion: Chris Graeme; Photos: Diana Quintela/MARE/AmCham Portugal The Minister of Portugal ’s newly created Ministry of State Reform, Gonçalo Saraiva Matias, says that Portuguese companies are [...]

Portugal’s Judicial Police (PJ) has conducted swoop and search activities at the country’s central bank and several State organisations over “suspected corruption crimes”. At issue are acts that [...]

Five executive directors at Bosch Portugal, including its CEO, Carlos Ribas, were fired last summer by the German company’s head office without the right to compensation or severance pay over [...]

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 [...]

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