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Évora's Tribunal da Relação Strikes the Terrorism Convictions From the Tancos Paiol File for Paulino, Pais and Hugo Santos — Sentences Trimmed for Seven Defendants and the First-Instance Pacto-de-Silêncio Finding Reversed

Évora's Tribunal da Relação Strikes the Terrorism Convictions From the Tancos Paiol File for Paulino, Pais and Hugo Santos — Sentences Trimmed for Seven Defendants and the First-Instance Pacto-de-Silêncio Finding Reversed

Évora's Tribunal da Relação on Tuesday struck the terrorism convictions of Paulino, Pais and Hugo Santos in the Tancos paiol file, trimmed sentences across seven defendants, reversed the first-instance pacto-de-silêncio finding and cut Major Vasco Brazão from 5 to 3.5 years suspended.
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Operação Fundo Perdido Confirms €3.2 Million State Loss as Three Are Arrested for Subsidy Fraud Across Évora, Santarém and Setúbal — Portugal 2020 and Alentejo 2020 Programmes Both Hit, 23 Counts of Subsidy Fraud and a Criminal-Association Indictment

Operação Fundo Perdido Confirms €3.2 Million State Loss as Three Are Arrested for Subsidy Fraud Across Évora, Santarém and Setúbal — Portugal 2020 and Alentejo 2020 Programmes Both Hit, 23 Counts of Subsidy Fraud and a Criminal-Association Indictment

Ministério Público confirms €3.2M State loss in Operação Fundo Perdido. Three arrested across Évora, Santarém, Setúbal — fictitious invoicing and over-invoicing inside Portugal 2020 and Alentejo 2020 reporting. 23 fraud counts plus criminal-association indictment, certified accountant suspended.
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Ministério Público Charges Lar do Comércio in Matosinhos for the COVID-19 Deaths of 18 Residents — Six Years On, the Pandemic-Era Care-Home Accountability File Finally Reaches the Penal Code

Ministério Público Charges Lar do Comércio in Matosinhos for the COVID-19 Deaths of 18 Residents — Six Years On, the Pandemic-Era Care-Home Accountability File Finally Reaches the Penal Code

Ministério Público charges Lar do Comércio in Matosinhos and its former leadership with propagation of contagious disease aggravated by the result — 18 deaths and 3 serious-injury counts from the April–May 2020 COVID outbreak that infected 109 of the lar's residents. Indictment filed 31 March 2026.
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