Corruption

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 [...]

The governor of the Autonomous Region of Madeira and the mayor of Funchal have resigned after being made legal suspects in a corruption case in which both are being investigated by the Portuguese [...]

The live televised address on Saturday to the Portuguese people in which ‘caretaker’ Prime Minister António Costa apologised for recent events which shook the government and resulted in him [...]

The Governor of the Bank of Portugal, Mário Centeno, was to have been proposed to lead the ruling PS party caretaker government until the general election on 10 March. Now, current Prime [...]

Portugal’s Prime Minister António Costa has handed in his resignation to Portugal’s Head of State, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, as the PS socialist government he has led since 2015 has been [...]

Portugal’s Supreme Court of Justice has accepted an appeal filed by the lawyers of former Banco Espírito Santo chairman Ricardo Salgado to reduce his prison sentence from eight years to six for [...]

Portugal’s Minister of Infrastructures, João Galamba, has thrown down the gauntlet to the CEO of the country’s largest telecommunications group Altice Portugal, Ana Figueiredo and shareholder [...]

Investigations by Portugal’s criminal investigations department into alleged illegal activities at the country’s telecoms giant Altice Portugal has undermined confidence in the company’s bond [...]

The Co-CEO of Altice Portugal Alexandre Fonseca has stepped down from all executive and non-executive functions at the telecoms giant because he is under judicial investigation. Alexandre [...]