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The Judiciary Police (PJ) detained two public servants in the service of the Regional Fund for Cohesion and Economic Development (FRCDE), because they were “heavily accused” of improperly appropriating € 400,000 from that public body under the government’s authority Regional of the Azores.

The two women, aged 55 and 56, linked to the Administrative and Financial Section of the FRCDE, are suspected of the continued practice of the crime of embezzlement in the last seven years.”Those detained, taking advantage of their professional functions and through undue treasury operations, with the use of incorrect bank transfers, in an articulated manner, have succeeded in ibtiaining for their their benefit, a value of nearly four hundred Thousand euros, “said the statement sent to the offices by the Department of Criminal Investigation of Ponta Delgada

GNR Guarda have delivered about 400 pieces of clothing and footwear to four social institutions in the region that support children and young people, the elderly and disadvantaged households.

According to Lieutenant Daniel Fernandes, commander of the Intervention Detachment of the Territorial Command of the GNR of Guarda, the institutions received articles that were seized in recent months for counterfeiting in road inspection actions and in fairgrounds held in various places in the district.

The GNR official explained to the Lusa agency that the pieces distributed today, by court decision, were destined to be delivered to social institutions, “without reference to the brands”, which were previously withdrawn.

“Those pieces that do not give to remove the labels or marks are destroyed,” he said.

The GNR of Guarda, taking advantage of the holiday season, delivered, for the fourth consecutive year, about 400 articles of clothing (pants, sweaters, etc.) and footwear to four institutions in the municipalities of Guarda, Seia, Pinhel and Almeida, Thousands of euros. “

Each institution received about 100 pieces at a time of the year considered “the most appropriate” by GNR, according to Daniel Fernandes.

 

The GNR announced on 23rd December the arrest of three young people for drug trafficking in Viseu and the seizure of more than a thousand doses of cocaine in an investigation that lasted about six months.

In a statement, the GNR de Viseu reports that the arrest of the three men, aged between 25 and 29 years, was carried out by military personnel from the Criminal Investigation Center of Viseu, in collaboration with the Criminal Investigation Center of Santa Comba Dão.

“As part of the investigation, which took place about six months ago, two home searches and two non-domiciliary searches were carried out in Viseu and Oporto,” he adds.

According to the GNR, 1177 doses of cocaine, a shotgun, a vehicle, ten mobile phones, five caliber cartridges, four LCDs, three computers, a gold ring, a precision scale, various equipment and sound instruments were seized, Various pairs of tennis and snippets for narcotic packaging.

Two of the suspects were subject to pre-trial detention, while the other was subjected to weekly presentations at the GNR station in their area of ​​residence.

 

Diario de Notices (DN) has reported on 24^th December that the Judicial Police investigates more than one case a day of corruption. Condemnations are only 0.04% of the total registered at first instance

Trial court judges last year condemned 25 defendants for the crime of corruption. The number of investigations carried out by the Judiciary Police (PJ) shows more significantly: 473 investigations (an average of one per day) last year against 345 in 2014. The data are from the Directorate General for Justice Policy (DGPJ) which reveals Statistics between 2007 and 2015 From 2007 to last year the number of convictions for this crime has reduced to less than half (from 52 to 25). The number of defendants nine years ago was, however, much more significant (102) than in the previous year (45).

As of September last year, the Public Prosecutor (MP) – responsible for the charges – completed 536 investigations that ended in prosecution, that is, that there was sufficient evidence to bring to trial. In the same period of this year (September 2016) 617 counts were deducted. Still, based on these data, it is not possible to make a direct comparison because the cases investigated, accused and that resulted in conviction in that period, are not necessarily the same.

Contacted by the DN, the national director of the Judiciary Police (PJ) Almeida Rodrigues admits that, this year and until the beginning of the month, 119 suspects have already been arrested for corruption. “What makes an average detainee every three days.”

Justice Minister Francisca Van Dunem, prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, gave her former colleagues a word of confidence in the fight against corruption, recalling that Portugal ranks 28th in 167 countries in the Ranking of the perception of corruption, prepared by Transparency International.

The Government has announced increased funding for the GNR and PSP over the next 5 years.

Between 2017 and 2021, a total of Euros 8,5 will be spent on weapons; 104.9 million on upgrading buildings and 60.9 million for vehicles.

The GNR will receive 77.3 million of these funds and the PSP 90 million.

This is part of a package of and additional Euros 450 million to upgrade the security forces announced by the Prime Minister Antonio Coasta earlier.

About 37 litres of liqueur and spirits were seized for failing to comply with legal or security requirements.

An anonymous complaint led GNR to seize alcoholic beverages, namely homemade liqueur, which was being sold in some tents along Avenida Arriaga.

Major Marco Nunes of GNR explained to Antena 1,  that 37 litres of liqueur and spirits were seized for failing to comply with legal or security requirements.

There are two infringements in question: on the one hand the fact that the bottles did not bear the proper seal but has already paid the tax. In this case the fine may be from 250 euros to 500 euros. Secondly no consumption tax has ever been paid for the beverages in question. Fines for this range from 1500 euros to 3,000 euros.

On 20^th December at 1830 hrs the Metropolitan Command of Lisbon PSP, through the Police Division of Sintra, at the toll plaza of the Vasco da Gama Bridge (A12 direction Algarve-Lisboa), arrested, a man aged 48 years caught in the act of drug trafficking.

Following investigation, the suspect was intercepted in the Vasco da Gama Bridge toll zone, when he was preparing to pay the said fee.

After the suspect and car were searched the PSP found in the boot of the car four bags with various packaging of narcotics, suspected to be hashish, with a weight of more than  59 kg .

A house search was made at the residence of the suspect and several portions of narcotic product suspected of being hashish were located and seized:

In the car:

–  118,798 doses of narcotic product suspected to be hashish .

In the possession of the suspect:

– 1 Vehicle;

– 2 Mobile phones;

– 110 Euros;

In the residence:

–  200.32 Product Doses narcotic, suspected Hashish .

 

Two men were detained in the municipality of Tondela who tried to deceive the victim in a business involving assets valued at 485,000 euros

The Judiciary Police, through the Center’s Board, detained two men suspected of various crimes including counterfeiting. In the municipality of Tondela.

The victim of the fraudulent scheme was approached last November by two suspects, of foreign nationality, suggesting that they were businessmen living in Angola and that they proposed to buy furniture worth approximately 500,000 euros.

After a few meetings at a hotel in Lisbon for talks the suspect made the victims believe that they had personal and family ties to international organizations. The suspects undertook to pay for the furniture to be acquired in cash upon agreement.

At one meeting in Lisbon, the two suspects had a trolley suitcase, which they said contained two million euros.

In Tondela, the suspects chose the furniture they allegedly intended to acquire and pay, valued at approximately 485,000 euros. On this occasion, using some notes, the suspects demonstrated to their victim the alleged chemical process that would allow them to transform and clean up the notes they carried.

On July 19, the suspects went back to Tondela, where they met with the victim to finalize the furniture business and the chemical transformation of the notes, at which time they were detained by the Judicial Police in the act of committing a crime.

In the course of the police operation were seized the suitcase and the safe, containing the counterfeitl notes amounting to two million euros and the supposed chemicals needed for the processing and cleaning of the notes.

GNR Coruche Territorial Office detained on 21st December in the town of Couço – Coruche, a man aged 71 years on suspicion of deceiving a 77 year old.

The suspect approached an elderly man in São José da Lamarosa – Coruche, convincing him that the 20 and 50 euro bills would end, leading the victim to handover 140 euros in 20 and 50 notes.

After the alert, the GNR approached the suspect wher eafter he was arrested. The money was recovered and returned to the victim.

The detainee was subject to a term of identity and residence.

The National Republican Guard (GNR) intensified, from November 1 to December 20, throughout the national territory,  inspections to prevent and combat illegal activities of harvesting, transportation and storage of pine cones..

The surveillance actions, carried out by military personnel of the Service of Protection of the Nature and the Environment (SEPNA) of the Territorial Commands and by military personnel of the National Traffic Unit, were directed to the areas with the largest pine forests, where Related activity is more common.

During this operation, more than 33 tons of pine cones were distributed, distributed geographically as follows:

District	Number of pine cones (kg)
Evora	294
Faro	124
Guard	20
Lisbon	570
Portalegre	685
Setúbal	30 866
Viana do Castelo	60
Viseu	527
TOTAL	33 146

 

During the operation three crimes were detected, resulting in two detainees and 51 infractions.