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Minister faces scrutiny over undeclared construction work

📍 Barcelos🏛️ Government⚖️ Legal#government-policy+1 more

Minister of Internal Administration Luís Neves is under fire after reports revealed he built a swimming pool on family land in Odemira without proper municipal notification. Critics, including a former local mayor, argue the incident highlights a broader issue of insufficient municipal oversight, while reports suggest materials used at the site may be linked to insolvent companies. The Minister has so far declined to provide information regarding the construction.

Luís Neves will take office on Monday as Minister of Internal Administration. He graduated in law and has worked at the Judicial Police since 1995, where he served as coordinator of a national unit and developed a long career in criminal investigation.

4 sources →14 Jul
Minister faces scrutiny over undeclared construction work

Recent stories

The unlikely story of Glockenwise: forever, a band from Barcelos

📍 Braga🎭 Culture#music

An overview of the musical journey of the Portuguese band Glockenwise, highlighting their origins in the city of Barcelos.

publico.pt18 Sept

Doctors to prescribe walking to treat depression

📍 Braga🩺 Health🏖️ Daily Life#medical-services+2 more

The AtivaMente project stems from the idea that “health is not just created within healthcare facilities.” Over 12 weeks, 25 to 30 participants will be monitored during various activities.

observador.pt16 Sept
Doctors to prescribe walking to treat depression

Stray dogs attack at least three people in an industrial area in Barcelos

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🏖️ Daily Life#public-safety+1 more

The GNR has already been alerted, as has the municipal kennel.

cmjornal.pt16 Sept
Stray dogs attack at least three people in an industrial area in Barcelos

Woman dies after being hit by a car at her doorstep in Barcelos

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🏖️ Daily Life#crime-report+1 more

In addition to the fatality, the occupants of the car were injured. The alert was given at 18:57, and the victim's death was declared at the scene.

observador.pt15 Sept
Woman dies after being hit by a car at her doorstep in Barcelos

Operation Teia trial has begun

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🏛️ Government#crime-report

According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, the case involves crimes of corruption, malfeasance, and other economic crimes.

rtp.pt15 Sept
Operation Teia trial has begun

Stray dogs attack at least three people in an industrial area in Barcelos

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🏖️ Daily Life#public-safety+1 more

The GNR has already been alerted, as has the municipal kennel.

cmjornal.pt15 Sept
Stray dogs attack at least three people in an industrial area in Barcelos

Kitchen fire in apartment forces building evacuation in Barcelos. Three people injured

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🏖️ Daily Life#public-safety+1 more

Children from a nursery school operating in the same building were evacuated for safety.

cmjornal.pt12 Sept
Kitchen fire in apartment forces building evacuation in Barcelos. Three people injured

Barcelinhos firefighter assisted while fighting fire

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🩺 Health#emergency-services+1 more

The operative felt unwell due to high temperatures inside the apartment. Children from a nursery located in the same building were evacuated for safety.

cmjornal.pt11 Sept
Barcelinhos firefighter assisted while fighting fire

Luís Neves and the controversial facts surrounding him: a hearing where almost everything had already been said

📍 Braga🏛️ Government⚖️ Legal#government-policy+1 more

The Minister of Internal Administration spent over four hours being questioned by members of parliament, but added little to what was already known regarding the facts related to a contractor from Barcelos with whom he became friends. Neves took the opportunity to, once again, point to the PJ services as responsible for the failures attributed to him.

expresso.pt8 Sept
Luís Neves and the controversial facts surrounding him: a hearing where almost everything had already been said

Device reduces children's discomfort during vaccination

📍 Braga🩺 Health🏖️ Daily Life#medical-services+2 more

The Barcelos-Esposende Local Health Unit has started using devices that minimise pain and discomfort for children during vaccinations.

rtp.pt7 Sept
Device reduces children's discomfort during vaccination

Man and woman injured in tractor crash in Barcelos

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🩺 Health#public-safety+1 more

The accident occurred in Pereira, in the municipality of Barcelos. The man was transported to Braga Hospital and the woman, who sustained minor injuries, to Barcelos Hospital.

observador.pt2 Sept
Man and woman injured in tractor crash in Barcelos

For 40 years, this family has been selling ceramic pieces at fairs in Portugal

📍 Braga🏖️ Daily Life🎭 Culture#traditional-crafts+2 more

A look at a family business that has spent four decades selling pottery at various markets across Portugal.

nit.ptnit.pt23 Aug

Barcelos: free transport pass for city centre workers

📍 Braga🚇 Infrastructure🏖️ Daily Life#public-transport+1 more

The TUBA Urbano pass can be requested at the municipal one-stop shop or online. The city has 1,500 free parking spaces in peripheral lots connected to the centre.

observador.pt11 Aug
Barcelos: free transport pass for city centre workers

Transport. Barcelos launches 9.9 million euro tender

📍 Braga🚇 Infrastructure🏛️ Government#public-transport+1 more

Applications open until 20 August. The award criterion is price. The tender was published in the Diário da República by the mayor, Mário Constantino Lopes.

observador.pt10 Aug
Transport. Barcelos launches 9.9 million euro tender

Barcelos wastewater treatment plant: tender launched for 35 million

📍 Braga🚇 Infrastructure🌱 Environment#sustainability+1 more

The project, to be installed in Vila Frescainha São Pedro, has an execution period of 910 days and includes ozonation technologies, water reuse, and energy production.

observador.pt5 Aug
Barcelos wastewater treatment plant: tender launched for 35 million

Barcelos approves public tender for construction of new 35 million euro wastewater treatment plant

📍 Braga🚇 Infrastructure🌱 Environment#sustainability+1 more

The Barcelos City Council approved, during an executive meeting, the opening of an international public tender for the construction of the municipality's Wastewater Treatment Plant (ETAR), representing an investment of over 35 million euros, the municipality indicated this Wednesday. In a statement, the council explains that the new infrastructure will be located in the parish of...

eco.sapo.pt5 Aug
Barcelos approves public tender for construction of new 35 million euro wastewater treatment plant

IL requests urgent hearing with Barcelos contractor

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🏛️ Government#public-safety+1 more

The party states that the issue concerns the conditions 'under which a service provider for the Judiciary Police itself also ended up carrying out works on private properties belonging to the then National Director of the institution'.

cmjornal.pt5 Aug
IL requests urgent hearing with Barcelos contractor

Chega wants to know why chemicals in the trailer were not destroyed by the PJ

📍 Braga🏛️ Government⚖️ Legal#chega+2 more

The party asks what budgetary allocation is available, both in the PJ and the Ministry of Justice, in 2024 and 2025, 'to finance the destruction of seized chemical products or hazardous waste'.

cmjornal.pt3 Aug
Chega wants to know why chemicals in the trailer were not destroyed by the PJ

Barcelos contractor says transport of material seized by the PJ was arranged verbally and without documentation

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🎭 Culture#crime-report+1 more

João dos Santos Carvalho, the Barcelos contractor at the centre of the controversy involving Luís Neves, spoke on television for the first time. Speaking to TVI's Exclusivo (part of the same group as CNN Portugal), he admits to having offered to transport the trailer and drums containing chemical products seized by the PJ, acknowledging that everything was arranged verbally and without any documentation.

cnnportugal.iol.pt30 Jul
Barcelos contractor says transport of material seized by the PJ was arranged verbally and without documentation

Luís Neves waited three weeks to understand what we could know by then, in order to create his narrative

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🏛️ Government#public-safety+1 more

Bruno Batista, a commentator for CNN Portugal, believes that the justification regarding the lack of budgetary provision “does not serve as an excuse for having to find a solution to send hazardous material to a street in Barcelos.”

cnnportugal.iol.pt30 Jul
Luís Neves waited three weeks to understand what we could know by then, in order to create his narrative

Neves' deputy who managed assets seized by the PJ was not informed about the trailer

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🏛️ Government#judiciary-police+1 more

“I had no knowledge of a trailer seized during an investigation being taken to Barcelos,” assured the former deputy national director of the PJ responsible for managing seized assets.

publico.pt28 Jul

The minister and his friend

📍 Braga🏛️ Government⚖️ Legal#government-policy+1 more

How was this possible? No one has explained it yet. But friends are for all occasions!

cmjornal.pt27 Jul
The minister and his friend

Trailer followed to Barcelos contractor's warehouse under Judiciary Police escort

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🏛️ Government#crime-report+1 more

Luís Neves continues to offer no explanation regarding his role in the transfer of a trailer seized from a cocaine manufacturer. It has since emerged that he failed to submit his income tax declaration.

publico.pt25 Jul

Luís Neves case: lawyer for trailer owner requests nullity of evidence in drug trial

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🏛️ Government#crime-report+1 more

João Martins Leitão guarantees he was not notified of the trailer's transport to Barcelos. Seized by the PJ during Operation Pacoba, the vehicle was found at a company belonging to a friend of the minister.

publico.pt24 Jul

PJ says it is not 'accurate' to conclude it was removed from the trailer investigation

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🏛️ Government#crime-report+1 more

The Judiciary Police clarifies that it was not removed from the investigation into the disappearance of a trailer that was under its custody, which was later found at the facilities of a construction company from Barcelos that carried out work on several PJ facilities and also at the home of former national director Luís Neves.

rtp.pt22 Jul
PJ says it is not 'accurate' to conclude it was removed from the trailer investigation

Evidence of two crimes in the case of the trailer belonging to the contractor friend of Luís Neves

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🏛️ Government#crime-report+2 more

The Judicial Police detected evidence of the potential commission of the crimes of embezzlement and abuse of power regarding the transport of the trailer to Barcelos.

cmjornal.pt22 Jul
Evidence of two crimes in the case of the trailer belonging to the contractor friend of Luís Neves

Luís Neves promises explanations, while the Public Prosecutor's Office will investigate if a crime occurred in the trailer case

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🏛️ Government#crime-report+1 more

Abuse of power and embezzlement are the crimes indicated in the inquiry opened by the Attorney General's Office to investigate how chemicals used to process drugs appeared in a warehouse belonging to a businessman from Barcelos.

publico.pt21 Jul

Today in the news: Brisa, Judiciary Police and evictions

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🏛️ Government#public-contracts+2 more

The Judiciary Police maintains confidentiality regarding information on 12 contracts signed with the contractor from Barcelos, while Brisa quantifies compensation claims submitted to the State at 1.1225 billion euros. Discover these and other highlighted news stories in the national press this Tuesday. Brisa claims more than 1.1 billion euros from the State.

eco.sapo.pt21 Jul
Today in the news: Brisa, Judiciary Police and evictions

Experts question secrecy of contracts between PJ and Barcelos contractor

📍 Braga⚖️ Legal🏛️ Government#crime-report+1 more

The transfer of a trailer containing chemicals for drug processing from Seixal to Barcelos could have serious consequences, warns the criminal investigating judge.

publico.pt21 Jul

Ammonia in Barcelos and the mystery of the digital exams

📍 Braga🏛️ Government🎓 Education#government-policy+1 more

With ammonia roaming the streets and exam grades lost in the 'digital' system, the government looks like a comedy sketch. Add the United Kingdom inventing leaders to the mix, and we have the perfect international chaos.

observador.pt19 Jul
Ammonia in Barcelos and the mystery of the digital exams