Justice

A former Portuguese minister for the Economy between 2005 and 2011, Manuel Pinho, has had to stump up one of the highest bails ever demanded by Portuguese justice — €6 million. It is believed to [...]

The former president of Banco Privado Português (BPP), João Rendeiro, has been transferred to the notoriously rough prison Westville Correction Facility near Durban. The ex-banker spent the [...]

A former Portuguese minister of the Economy was arrested this week after being quizzed by the country’s criminal investigation department DCIAP. Manuel Pinho, who spent the night at a PSP police [...]

Portuguese ex-banker on the run, João Rendeiro, has finally been arrested in South Africa where he had been eluding justice for several months. The BPP (Banco Privado Português) founder who [...]

Ex-banker João Rendeiro says he will not return to Portugal of his free will unless he gets a pardon from the Portuguese president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. On the run from justice to serve [...]

Portugal’s on-the-run ex-banker João Rendeiro hid over €30 million from the Portuguese tax authorities. The size of the ‘banksters’ tax fraud according to documents included in two enquires into [...]

A Portuguese banker on the run from justice and prison in Portugal could be declared ‘contumacious’ by a high court. Rumoured to be hiding away in South Africa, João Rendeiro, the [...]

The former president of BES Angola, Álvaro Sobrinho stashed over €188 million in the Swiss wealth management company Akoya in which he was a shareholder. According to Correio da Manhã, the banker [...]

João Rendeiro transferred patrimony to taxi association boss… The former banker and one-time president of Portuguese failed investment bank BPP transferred his property to a taxi driver [...]

One of the former directors of failed private bank BPP who is facing a court hearing linked to serious economic and financial crimes is returning to Portugal this week from Brazil. Paulo Guichard [...]