Justice

Portugal’s slow, cumbersome, over-complicated and archaic judicial, administrative and tax systems are so inadequate and hostile to business and society that they are actively frightening [...]

Text and Photo: Chris Graeme We all know countries arbitrarily detain people, particularly autocratic regimes, but it’s one thing being aware of the phenomena, and quite another to hear the [...]

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 [...]

French authorities have seized five luxury apartments that belong to Armando Pereira, one of the founders of the Altice Group. Also seized were top-of-the-range cars, works of art, and €600,000 [...]

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 [...]

Portuguese judicial police officers swooped on Novobanco headquarters while the actual contract signing ceremony was being held at the Ministry of Finances on Wednesday celebrating the bank’s [...]

The Portuguese consumer watchdog Deco has won a legal action against telecommunications companies MEO, NOS and Nowo that could lead to the payback of €40 million to customers over price hikes [...]

Text: Chris Graeme Photo: Fernando Bento (ICPT) Low productivity is one of the main stumbling blocks to economic growth in Portugal according to Portugal’s Minister of Finances, Joaquim Miranda [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]