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Público has reported that the 10 arrested in connection with an operation that the PSP and the PJ held earlier this month in Amadora against violent crimes, were remanded in custody, the District Attorney General of Lisbon (PGDL) revealed.

The PGDL adds that “nine of the defendants were heavily indicted for aggravated robbery and the tenth for committing crimes of forbidden weapon possession and serious physical offenses.” According to the PGDL, the detainees were presented to the first judicial interrogation in the framework of five investigations, all of them conducted by the third section of the Amadora Department of Investigation and Criminal Action (DIAP).

The operation, which took place on 1^st February 2017, resulted from the reports by several people of thefts in the street, “including through physical force and using the weapon, as well as users of public transport road-rail , In particular the Sintra line, “explained the PSP at the time.

At the time, in a statement, the PJ reported that, in conjunction with the PSP, “it fulfilled 13 home search warrants, targeting residences located in the 6 de Maio Neighborhood, Casal da Mira, Bairro do Zambujal and Estrada Militar, all in the county Of Amadora “.

In addition to the searches carried out by the PJ, the criminal investigation squad of the Amadora PSP carried out eight more searches, including in the neighborhood of Casal da Boba in Amadora, and a residence in Mira Sintra, Sintra municipality, according to a police source.

In the course of the operations mobile phones and tablets obtained in robberies, clothes used in assaults and a replica of a weapon of war, supposedly used in armed robberies, were sized. The replica was a G36 automatic rifle, one of the weapons used by the PSP’s Special Operations Group (GOE).

The Territorial Command of Aveiro, through the Territorial Office of Águeda, stopped on 5th February, in the parish of Aguada de Cima – Águeda, two men aged 37 and 43 years, for theft of non precious metals.

The two men were arrested following a complaint by a citizen who warned that two men were found on their agricultural land burning waste. The military moved to the scene and detained the two suspects caught in the act of burning of copper wire.

More than a ton of copper wire was seized, several tools were used to cut the copper wire and a light goods truck.
The two men were constituted defendants and subject to expiration of identity and residence.

The GNR Territorial Command of Setúbal, through the Center for Research and Support to Specific Victims of Almada, inspected on 7th February, a nursing home in Quinta do Conde – Sesimbra.

In the course of investigating a domestic violence case, which took place about three months ago, it was found that the persons concerned were owners of a home that was operating illegally.

With the support of Social Security, the administrative closure of the home was decreed in 30 days.

Dozens of Judicial Police inspectors carried out searches on 7^th February in an investigation involving hospitals in Lisbon, Almada, Setúbal, Portimão and Faro concerning contracts amounting to around two million damages to the state

The National Unit Against Corruption of the Judicial Police is investigating suspected crimes in the operation of bars and coffee shops in hospitals in Lisbon, Setúbal, Portimão and Faro. According to information gathered by the DN, dozens of UNCC inspectors carried out searches to collect documentation this Tuesday. The Judiciary called it “Operation Clean Dishes”.

The case involves, a public employee of the Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa, and her husband, an entrepreneur, who unlawfully disclosed various information on public tenders. The couple was made constuído defendido.

The Diarios de Noticais has reported that, the public servant was able to obtain information on proposals from other competitors who applied for bar and cafeteria contracts, informing her husband that, as an entrepreneur, she has always been able to present the lowest tenders, thus obtaining the winning bid. The amounts involved amount to around two million euros.

 

 

The Judiciary Police is conducting this Tuesday morning (7^th February) searches in Greater Lisbon related to suspected child pornography. The news was advanced by SIC and confirmed by the PUBLIC.

It is an international operation in which the Portuguese authorities also participate, after having identified servers that in several countries have access to content related to child pornography.

Police in different countries are acting at the same time to prevent suspects from having time to contact each other.

The operation takes place on the date of the Safe Internet Day. In Portugal it is the National Unit against Cybercrime of the Judicial Police that is carrying it out.

The Territorial Command of Madeira, through the Territorial Office of Funchal, seized yesterday, February 6, 2 785 euros and illicit gambling listings in Funchal.

As part of an operation to combat illegal gambling, the GNR visited several commercial establishments, where 2 785 euros were seized and several betting slips, referring to the commonly known ” Jogo do Bicho”, as well as several betting lists referring to another game and mutual bets commonly known as “Jogo do Arrebenta”  or “Loto of the Euromillions”, with values that amount to 5,000 euros.

The intrusion in emails is growing in Portugal, says PJ. GNR registered increased online loss

In a report in Diario de Noticais the PJ says that the new trend in cyberattacks is “CEO fraud.” It begins like this: a hacker accesses the protocol that identifies the computers of a company (the IP), and soon, to all the mails. The next step to intrude into the system is to send an e-mail by posing as the firm’s chief executive, giving direct orders to other executive positions to transfer thousands or millions of euros to certain accounts, on the pretext of getting a deal done.

Carlos Cabreiro, coordinator of the computer crime section of the Lisbon Judicial Police, told DN that “there are already dozens of cases in Portugal with” CEO fraud “and companies from all areas, injured in large thousands of euros.”

Today, European Secure Internet Day, it’s important to stress that “e-mail scams are taking on increasingly different forms and” CEO fraud “is just one of them.”

Each year, on average, there are more than 1,000 inquiries for computer crimes in the PJ of Lisbon. The most significant have been “crimes related to access to data and credentials of access to bank accounts, phishing, and also sexual extortion, which already reaches 80 cases per year in Lisbon alone.”

Although computer crimes are the sole responsibility of the Judicial Police, the GNR also investigates crimes committed using computers. In its territorial area, the National Republican Guard registered a 22% increase in the crime of desecration by computer, from 83 cases in 2015 to 102 in 2016, as DN Major Paulo Poiares pointed out. Debauchery is a way of humiliating someone by accessing, for example your Facebook profile to put a false message that denigrates the person. It also commits this crime to create or maintain files containing personal data that allow the identification of a particular person regarding political, religious or philosophical beliefs, party or trade union affiliation or privacy in general.

Also, the phenomenon of cyberbullying – or the persecution / humiliation of an adult or teenager through social networks – has been gaining more and more expression. According to Major Paulo Poiares, the GNR registered a total of 3224 complaints for defamation, libel and slander in 2016, most of them through the internet, in what was a rise of 3% of these three crimes that constitute cyberbullying.

The Guard also pointed out an increase in computer fraud in 2016: 3171 scams (291 more than in 2015). Most cases refer to schemes to victimize victims related to online shopping platforms. For example, platforms like OLX have been used by scammers to get easy money. As one police source told the DN, the fraudster places an advertisement for the sale of a mobile phone, the party transfers the money for payment and then never receives the mobile phone. Or the interested party receives at home the last generation camera that he had bought and which, after all, is a simple plastic machine.

The GNR also registered an increase in extortion by computer: 98 cases (22 more than in 2015). “We have noticed here a rise in cases of sexual extortion through the use of intimate photographs or videos to blackmail someone.” As the GNR official notes, what general crime data in 2016 will point out when the Annual Homeland Security Report is released in March, “is a decline in crime of crime but an increase in all Internet-related crime” .

To mark the European Safe Internet Day, Vodafone has released a survey of 5298 teenagers in 10 countries about their online habits. In Portugal, 200 adolescents were surveyed. In conclusion: 54% of Portuguese youth have “many friends” online that they have never met in real life. In this indicator, Portugal and Italy are the ones with the highest value. 37% of Portuguese adolescents know people who have created fake profiles to publish content or photographs on social networks. 70% have admitted that many people act differently online from what they are or do in real life. Positive note: 79% of young people received advice to be positive in social media, the highest percentage in 10 countries.

 

 

The Supreme Court upheld the sentence of up to 11 years in prison of 13 defendants charged with house breakings at residences in several northern districts.

The Oporto District Attorney General’s Office states that “it has been proven that the accused were aware of the absence of the inhabitants of the dwellings at the time of local festivities or events of family life announced, namely baptisms, weddings and funerals.

As for funerals, the defendants consulted the necrology pages of the newspapers.

The main defendant was sentenced to 11 years in prison for 19 felonies of qualified theft, a crime of detention of a prohibited weapon and a crime of arms trafficking.

Three other defendants were also sentenced to imprisonment for eight and a half years, seven years and three years and four months.

Of the remaining seven defendants, five were sentenced to suspended prison sentences and two sentenced to work in favour of the community.

These penalties were applied by the Tribunal of Braga and later confirmed by the Court of Relation of Guimarães and now by the “Supreme”.

The facts that motivated the convictions happened from February 16, 2013 to October 14, 2014 and reported on house breakingss, essentially houses of residence, carried out in the towns of Povoa de Varzim, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Braga, Vila Praia de Âncora, Viana do Castelo, Santo Tirso, Guimarães, Vila Verde, Vizela, Monção and Barcelos.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office estimates that goods and amounts have been stolen in an amount in excess of €326,000. Source Jornel de Noticias

According to the Judiciary Police, the suspects belong to a “criminal association”

Three men suspected of attempted murder of PSP agents, robbery of a security company and criminal association, among other crimes, were detained by the Judiciary Police, police said today.

The detainees, with a criminal record and now remanded in custody, are charged with belonging to a criminal association, two attempted murders of PSP agents, as well as a felony robbery classified as a security company employee, who was a member of the crew of vehicle transporting of valuable. The incident took place inside the premises of the Continent Supermarket of Barreiro, on 17th October of 2016. There were a total of five robbers.

In the course of this criminal action, there was a confrontation between the robbers and the PSP agents responding to the incident, which resulted in the death of one of the robbers and serious injuries in another.

The trio now held by the National Counterterrorism Unit (UNCT

At the time, the group assaulted the commercial area around 11:30 pm, near closing time. The first patrol car arriving at the scene was targeted.

The two police officers who first came to the scene also suffered injuries – one of them was even run over by the suspects.

The assailants were wearing caps, gloves and bulletproof vests, and the PSP recovered a pistol, a revolver, an automatic firearm and a shotgun used in the robbery.

The persons were now detained after evidence had been brought during the investigation that led to their identification as participants in the crimes identified above.

The detainees have criminal records, were subjected to the first judicial interrogation being applied to them coercion measure of probation