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A couple set up a scheme to manage several NHS hospital canteens: they stopped paying rent and declared their companies insolvent. The current director of the ACSS is one of the 13 people accused in the case.
Pedro Ramos states that the Court of Auditors' report is “offensive to health professionals.” The document reveals breaches of the law and the improper payment of at least 3 million euros.
Chega leader André Ventura announced that his party will demand full disclosure of the agreement made by the Bank of Portugal regarding Mário Centeno's 'multimillion-euro pension'. He accused the current governor, Álvaro Santos Pereira, of proposing the departure of his predecessor—who now serves as a consultant to the institution—solely because he was being overshadowed. Ventura questioned the necessity of the pension for the 59-year-old former Finance Minister and criticised the use of the Bank of Portugal's pension fund, labelling it an 'absolute immorality'. Additionally, Ventura blamed the Socialist Party (PS) for the deadlock in electing members to external parliamentary bodies, while praising the PSD's leadership for their cooperation.
According to a note published by the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Porto district, a company based in Vale de Cambra, its main directors and more than 30 other defendants – The post Fraud: 35 defendants accused of swindling state and EU out of €1.6 million appeared first on Portugal Resident.
Municipalities in the Leiria region are calling for public money not to be 'squandered' and for the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) to include an 'important contribution' from local mayors, on the same day that several councils provided new assessments of the 'overwhelming scale' of the damages.
Banco de Fomento is not “perfectly aligned” with the control requirements of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), said António Ferreira, chairman of the PRR's Audit and Control Commission, pointing to communication failures.
Who paid for the filming and editing of the video? Obviously, our taxes.
The European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) has detained a suspect in Portugal accused of committing fraud related to COVID-19 support payments.
An investigation is probing suspicions of fraud in obtaining grants paid by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), under the Portugal2020 programme.
'Taxpayers' money may be recovered, in full or in part, the company was safeguarded and the national economy becomes stronger.' That is what the former Minister of the Economy says in written responses to members of the Economy Committee about Efacec's political management, which ECO had access to. 'As...
The dispute concerns the Cascais, Sintra/Azambuja, Sado and Porto sections.
Six-year sentence reduced to five years and suspended for a former divisional head who diverted public funds from 2013. The former treasurer also had her sentence reduced to four years, likewise suspended.
