The Health Minister Paulo Macedo has admitted that the latest report on fraud within the national health service this year shows that €118 million has been fraudulently spirited away.
The internal investigation unit of the health service has looked into 61 cases and there have been 64 disciplinary procedures involving NHS staff following the uncovering of corrupt practices. Macedo did not say how many had been prosecuted.
A taxpayer in Fafe, Braga has waiting for a year and a half for a refund from Finanças.
The man has been waiting since April 2013 for the return of €76,808 incorrectly demanded by the Tax Authority, and is fed up with waiting. So much so that he has instructed a lawyer to proceed with a criminal complaint.
Members of Scotland Yard's 'Operation Grange' team investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in 2007 have been in Faro today to sit in on a series of interviews of witnesses, and to catch up with their Portuguese police contacts.
The team arrived at Faro at 09.20, among them Chief Inspector Andy Redwood who has been responsible for the British side of the investigation for the past three and a half years and who retires later in December, passing the case to DCI Nicola Wall.
The Association of Professionals and Real Estate Companies of Portugal (APEMIP) has called on the government to carry out an urgent audit of the estimated 1,900 Golden Visas issued to date.
The request comes in the wake of suspicions of corruption in the allocation of Golden Visas that has led to the arrest 11 people, including the president of the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF), and the resignation of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Miguel Macedo.
Investors from Abu Dhabi have shelled out no less than £370 million to buy New Scotland Yard.
The Abu Dhabi Financial Group spent £120 million above the expected price of £250 million to secure the purchase.
The Portuguese Government has submitted 113 investment projects to the European Commission for consideration for funds under a new EU investment plan launched by Jean-Claude Juncker, the new President of the European Commission
The European Commission announced two weeks ago that it intended to launch investment of €315 billion over the next three years.
A resplendent Ricardo Salgado today faced his inquisitors in parliament and appeared truly to believe that the collapse of BES and the suspicious submarine money transfers were nothing to do with him, others were to blame and that he is guilty of nothing.
Using the schoolboy excuse of ‘a big boy did it and ran away’ Salgado, the former doyenne of the Espírito Santo Group, appeared calm and collected as he trotted out a well-prepared list of counter arguments when faced with examples of his alleged failures.
Facebook and other social media are being used by people smugglers to lure customers trying to reach Europe.
So far this year a record 150,000 refugees were sent by traffickers to Italy, with the growing trade now worth millions.
