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A 68-year-old man suspected of sexually abusing five children in the Vidigueira area has been detained by the Judicial Police.

Agents of the Southern PJ’s Board of Directors have complied with an arrest warrant issued by the Beja Public Prosecutor’s Office, which suspects that the man is the perpetrator of eight child sexual abuse crimes committed between 2015 and 2017.

Theman was already present in court and was ordered, as coercive measures, the periodic presentation, the prohibition of contact with children, the prohibition of exercise of activity and Resident Identity Term.

The Territorial Command of Leiria, through the Criminal Investigation Center of Caldas da Rainha and the Territorial Post of Bombarral, arrested on 1st February, two men of 20 and 29 years, on suspicion of theft of more than two dozen vehicles in the districts of Leiria, Lisbon, Santarém and Portalegre.

The action, triggered in the course of an investigation into the crime of theft, culminated in the interception of two suspects in the Bombarral county after a new vehicle theft resulting in the vehicle being abandoned and burned out.

After the arrests, two searches were carried out, one domiciliary and one non-domiciliary and the following items were seized:
• Two light vehicles;
• Eight wheels and their tires;
• Four car radios;
• Four subwoofer and three sound amplifiers;
• Two laptops;
• One LCD and one GPS;
• Two sanders;
• An industrial pneumatic hammer;
• A chainsaw;
• A pressure machine;
• A welding machine;
• A compressor and its accessories.

The detainees were constituted defendants and subject to expiration of identity and residence.

The National Republican Guard (GNR) inaugurates today, February 3, two new territorial posts in the area of ​​the Territorial Command of Viseu.

The Armamar Territorial Post and Tabuaço Territorial Post will be inaugurated at 11:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. respectively, in a ceremony presided by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Professor Constança Urbano de Sousa.

The inaugurated Territorial Posts meet unique structural and location conditions that allow to significantly increase GNR’s capacity of support to the citizens in the municipalities of Tabuaço and Armamar, that cover 27 parishes, in a total of 252.92 km ², serving a population of more than 12 thousand inhabitants.

The Armamar Territorial Post is located at Avenida 8 de Setembro, Municipal Market Building, 5110-121 – Armamar, with the telephone contact 254 600 246, and e-mail address ct.vis.dlmg.parm@gnr.pt.

The Territorial Office of Tabuaço is located at Rua Dr. Luís de Freitas, no. 25, 5210-415 – Tabuaço, with the telephone contact 254 789 214, and e-mail address ct.vis.dmbr.ptbc@gnr.pt

The National Republican Guard, in addition to its daily operations, carried out a series of operations throughout the country during the last week of January 27 to February 2, aimed at preventing and combating violent crime. The results were as follows:

1. Detentions: 458 detained in the act of committing offenses, of which:

• 150 for driving under the influence of alcohol;
• 82 for driving without legal authorization;
• 25 for theft;
• 20 for trafficking in narcotics;
• 11 for illegal possession of a weapon.

 

2. Seizures:

• 189,717 doses of hashish (over 94 kg);
• 512 doses of heroin;
• 47 doses of cocaine;
• 14 vehicles;
• 23 firearms;
• 203 ammunition of various calibres;
• 11 white guns;
• € 1,752 in cash.

 

3. Traffic enforcement:

10 299 detected infractions, highlighting:

• 2 086 excess speed;
• 542 tachograph related;
• 401 for improper use of the mobile phone in the exercise of driving;

The Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) carried out a surveillance operation at the Chaves city’s road terminals, which aimed at identifying passengers from European Union countries with documentation irregularities.

The action culminated in the interception of several undocumented foreign citizens, who were conducted for full identification to the SEF facilities at Vila Real.

From the analysis of the situation of each of the foreign citizens, it has been confirmed that one of them is an applicant for international warrant from Italy, and SEF will request their deportation under the Dublin Convention.

Of the other citizens it was possible to confirm the existence of expressions of interest presented under the terms of no. 2 of article 88 of the Aliens Law, some of them with a positive opinion issued by SEF and that their identification documents were elsewhere in the possession of family, friends or bosses.

Six citizens were detained for illegal stay in Portugal, and were presented yesterday to the judicial authority to apply coercive measures. Citizens were detained by judicial determination in a temporary Installation Center, where they await the further terms of the process of removal from national territory.

This is the second situation detected in the month of January involving the same circumstances, and in the first one, recorded about fifteen days before, eleven foreign citizens were detained

None of the foreign nationals detected in these two situations had, at the time of the interception, their passports. In view of the situations detected, SEF is analysing these migratory flows and the circumstances involved, in particular establishing the way in which foreign citizens have been contacted and transported

A man has been arrested by the Judicial Police on charges of procuring minors for pornographic purposes.

The Judicial Police, through the Northern Board, have identified and detained a man for the alleged practice of child pornography and child sexual abuse crimes.

The detainee created in the social network Facebook, from the year 2014, several false profiles for the purpose of relating to minors of both sexes, aged between 12 and 15 years, with whom he had conversations of obscene nature and to whom he requested pornographic photographs.

The 52-year-old detainee, a driver, will be present to the competent judicial authority for first interrogation of defendant and possible application of coercive measures.

The GNR through the Coastal Control Unit (UCC), delivered more than 38 tons of fish to social solidarity institutions during 2016, throughout the national territory.

Of the 128 tons of fish seized in 2016, after the obligatory submission to the sanitary inspection, about 38 tons were donated to social solidarity institutions, which corresponds to an additional 2.4 tons than in the year 2015.

Of this total value seized, a ton and a half of fish were still returned to the sea, as they were alive.

The UCC, with enforcement powers under the Land and Sea Fishing Law, also seized 166 tonnes of bivalves, 98 of which were returned to the aquatic environment as they were still alive, representing about 60% of the quantity seized.

During the various inspections carried out in the fisheries sector, the main infractions detected leading to the seizures were:

• Non-compliance with minimum sizes for fishing and commercialization;
• Lack of transport documents;
• Not subject to the legal compliance concerning the first sale of fresh fish.

The FBI has seized $20 million dollars of cash, literally stuffed in a mattress in Westborough, Massachusetts, linked to the infamous TelexFree pyramid scheme that reportedly raised over $1 billion from over one million gullible participants between January 2012 and March 2014. It is estimated that there were several thousand victims in Portugal involving some US$50 million, many of whom are living in Madira.

Cleber Rene Rizerio Rocha, 28, was charged in a criminal complaint with one count of conspiring to commit money laundering. Rocha was detained following an appearance today before U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Judith G. Dein.

According to the US Department of Justice, the money was found after an associate of one the scheme’s founders, Brazilian-native Carlos Wanzeler, was caught trying to launder the ill-gotten cash through Hong Kong to his boss who has been hiding out in Brazil ever since the TelexFree headquarters were raided by FBI agents back in 2014.  Unfortunately for him, the person chosen to help with the money laundering scheme was an FBI informant.

The complaint alleges that an intermediary working on Wanzeler’s behalf contacted an associate for help transferring millions of dollars of TelexFree money – still hidden in the greater Boston area – from the United States to Brazil. The associate, who subsequently became a cooperating witness for the government, allegedly arranged with Wanzeler’s nephew in Brazil to launder the cash through Hong Kong, convert it to Brazilian reals, and transfer it to Brazilian accounts.

According to court documents, Rocha, acting as a courier for Wanzeler’s nephew, flew from Brazil to JFK Airport in New York City a few days ago. Yesterday, Rocha met the cooperating witness at a restaurant in Hudson, Mass., and allegedly gave him $2.2 million in a suitcase.

After the meeting, agents followed Rocha to an apartment complex in Westborough, Mass., and later arrested him. That night, federal agents searched an apartment at the Westborough complex and seized a massive stockpile of cash hidden in a box spring. The cash appears to total approximately $20 million.

The Aliens and Borders Service (SEF) detained at the Lisbon Airport a foreign national in fulfillment of an arrest warrant for the purposes of extradition issued by the German authorities.

The 45-year-old, intercepted by the SEF on arrival in Portugal from Miami, is wanted to serve a 10-year prison sentence in Germany for a felony crime.

The detainee was present at the Court of Appeal and led, by judicial decision, to the prison establishment at the Judicial Police where he awaits the further terms of the extradition process for Germany.

The Secretary of State for Internal Affairs, Jorge Gomes, and the Chilean Ambassador to Portugal, Germán Guerrero Pavez, attended the departure today 28th January of a team from the National Authority of Civil Protection (ANPC), which will support Chile in combating forest fires, which have been beating that country for a month.

The Portuguese Government’s response follows the request for international assistance to forest fires presented by the Chilean authorities in the framework of the Civil Protection Mechanism of the European Union.

The Portuguese Government mobilizes an Operational Force with terrestrial means composed of 52 operatives of the Special Fire Service of the National Civil Protection Authority.

Under the solidarity that must govern the relationship between friendly countries, and considering the scenario in question, Portugal sent a team which includes an ANPC command team.

Also in this context, the ANPC also provided an expert on forest fires for eventual integration into the evaluation team that will be mobilized.

Since December 2016, Chile has probably faced the worst wave of forest fires in its history, and there are already lamented several deaths, more than 100 people removed from their homes and considerable damages in the building, being the regions of Valparaiso, Metropolitana, O’Higgins, Maule, Biobio, La Araucania and Los Lagos the most affected.