An inspector in the Judicial Police, serving in the National Anti-Corruption Unit, found himself among 19 people arrested on suspicions of ... corruption.
The inspector's sepciality was stopping the circulation of counterfeit credit cards and counterfeit currency.
The police operation was triggered by suspicions of corruption involving garages and car inspection centres in the Lisbon area.
The ploy was to take money from owners keen to ensure their vehicles passed the inspection, the inference being that cars that would otherwise have failed the inspection were given a clean certificate.
Among the detainees is a member of the GNR, an officer of the Public Security Police, vehicle inspectors, and garage owners who as known faces have been able to pass money to the ipspectors on behalf of clients with un-roadworthy vehicles.
