A member of the GNR on traffic duty has been accused of trousering money handed over by motorists for traffic violations.
The Public Prosecutor's Office in Portimão is prosecuting the 45-year-old GNR guard from Lagos for 36 instances of embezzlement, 38 crimes of forgery, passive corruption and abuse of power.
According to the indictment, "between October 2015 and March 2018, in the Lagos area, the accused, in the exercise of his functions of traffic supervision, kept part of the amounts that he received for payment of fines for road violations."
The Public Prosecutor's Office further believes that, in order not to be detected, he falsified the respective records.
The defendant has been suspended from duties and the prosecutor, rather sensibly considering the circumstances, requested that he be fired.
