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A 52-year-old man is suspected of fraud and of impersonating official functions. The number of incidents he may be involved in has not yet been established.

Man charged by the Public Prosecutor's Office with 23 counts of aggravated fraud. He defrauded companies.

With wine, if you don't make money from it you can at least drink it. Quite another matter is investing in bundles of wine as if they were shares. That's what Oeno was offering its clients. Column by Pedro Garcias.

A man filed a complaint with the Judicial Police in Lisbon, saying he lost €592.20.

The suspect was arrested in Penafiel.

Every year dozens of Ponzi schemes appear around the world. The trick keeps recurring and investors keep falling for it.

The women promised to cure illnesses and remove the evil eye. The court released the accused, who had been held in custody for a year and a half.

After the district courts of Castelo Branco and Porto declined to take the case, the Supreme Court will decide where the proceedings will be held.

A GNR officer was sentenced to 13 years in prison for defrauding elderly people, but the victims received little or nothing.

The technician altered the status of cases relating to unemployment benefit payments, which were partially credited to her account. She was also ordered to pay a fine of €12,000.

A London-based company required a minimum investment of €5,000 in bottles that investors never saw.

The 'Despertador' report says hundreds were harmed in a wine-related business scheme and a criminal case has been opened against the leader of the Fed.

A developer of residential complexes in Palmela sold the same houses to multiple buyers.

One of the defendants purchased 55 vehicles to benefit from state incentives. The cars were exported to Norway and Belgium.

Investors in Oeno, the British luxury wine broker believed to have left hundreds of victims in Portugal, say they were defrauded. The company's management says it was sold.

The defendant is accused of appropriating funds that belonged to creditors and failing to return them even after being notified by the court to do so under threat of a fine.

After the controversy at Inês Mendes da Silva’s agency and a spell working as a waiter, Manuel Santana Lopes is back on the market.

CEO fraud campaigns are characterised by the sending of emails or messages in which a malicious actor poses as an entity associated with the target organisation, managing to obtain money.

In 2024, fraudulent activities resulted in significant property losses, amounting to over 65 million euros.

Members of the parliamentary Health committee approved, this Wednesday, the request from the Liberal Initiative to hear Judge Carlos Alexandre regarding the announced Commission to Combat Fraud in the National Health Service (NHS).