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Naming Party Donors Would Help Catch Financing Crimes, Portugal's Prosecution Council Advises Parliament

The Superior Council of the Public Prosecution Service backs the aim of three bills to reopen the donor lists that went dark after a data-protection ruling, while faulting the PS text for vagueness and the BE text for lacking any proportionality.

The Portugal Brief 23 Sep 2026

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Prosecutors Shelve a Third Corruption Case Against Manuel Pinho, Finding No Proof He Sent a Million Euros of Tourism Money to the Firm That Hired His Son

The Ministério Público has closed the third corruption file to grow out of the EDP case against José Sócrates's economy minister. Prosecutors could not prove he steered a state tourism contract to the consultancy that later employed him, his son and his stepdaughter.

The Portugal Brief 19 Sep 2026

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A Former Finance Minister Testified on Thursday That Putting Armando Vara on the CGD Board Was His Own Decision, Not Sócrates's

Fernando Teixeira dos Santos told the Operação Marquês trial the choice was his alone. His immediate predecessor testified in November that Sócrates had insisted on Vara from the start, and the prosecution built a corruption count on that appointment.

The Portugal Brief 17 Sep 2026

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A Gaia Court Called Ten-Year-Old Champions League Trips Morally Censurable, Then Acquitted Everyone Charged Over Them

Eduardo Vitor Rodrigues, mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia for twelve years, was cleared of malfeasance and misappropriation over two municipally funded trips in 2015 and 2016 worth 15,800 euros. The judge called his choices censurable, then called them political.

The Portugal Brief 04 Sep 2026

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European Prosecutors Charge 15 in a €3.5 Million Scheme to Rig Recovery-Funded IT Contracts

The European Public Prosecutor's Office has charged 15 defendants — 12 people and three companies — in 'Operation Nexus,' an alleged scheme to rig PRR-funded IT tenders at a public university, costing the EU over €3.5 million. Two are in preventive detention.

The Portugal Brief 15 Jul 2026

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Prosecutor Seeks Trial for All 59 Accused in Lisbon's "Tutti-Frutti" Parish-Council Graft Case

At the final pre-trial hearing, the prosecution argued that all 59 defendants in the Lisbon "Tutti-Frutti" case — including a sitting parish official — should face a full trial over alleged favours to party activists.

The Portugal Brief 25 Jun 2026

Lisbon Criminal Court Convenes Tempestade Perfeita Defence-Procurement Mega-Trial With 73 Arguidos on 9 June — 43 Individuals, 30 Companies and Three Former DGRDN Directors Run Through 25 November 2026

Lisbon Criminal Court Convenes Tempestade Perfeita Defence-Procurement Mega-Trial With 73 Arguidos on 9 June — 43 Individuals, 30 Companies and Three Former DGRDN Directors Run Through 25 November 2026

The Tempestade Perfeita defence-procurement corruption trial opens at Lisbon's Tribunal Central Criminal on 9 June 2026 with 73 arguidos — 43 individuals and 30 companies — running through 25 November on corruption, embezzlement and money-laundering charges centred on the DGRDN.

The Portugal Brief 09 Jun 2026

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