Justice

Dozens of crimes relating to the collapse of the Banco Espírito Santo banking empire in 2014 may never be brought to final justice because of Portugal’s statute of limitations, meaning the time [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ricardo Salgado and six other defendants have been accused of corruption in business links of the Espírito Santo Group (GES) in Venezuela. As the alleged crimes took place between 2009 and 2014, [...]

More than a decade after the start of a nine month investigation into corruption fraud and money laundering involving Portugal’s electricity giant EDP, the defendants in the case are finally [...]

The banker and former part-owner of the Banco Espírito Santo empire, José Maria Ricciardi says he is not surprised by the guilty verdict of former BES boss Ricardo Salgado for three crimes of [...]