From luxury cars to more than 8,300 bottles in a wine cellar. This is just one of the many stories that passed through The Court of the Powerful

EXCLUSIVE || CNN Portugal pre-publishes an excerpt from journalist António José Vilela's book, 'The Court of the Powerful', a work focused on the stories of several high-profile cases that went through the Central Criminal Instruction Court. In the excerpt now published, subchapter 11, the final interrogations of Armando Pereira, co‑founder of Altice, and Braga businessman Hernâni Vaz Antunes are portrayed, as well as the surveillance of friends and the seizures at luxury homes.