The Labour Ministry puts the anti-fraud saving at 76.5 million euros over the first eight months of 2026, across about 6,000 verification proceedings. It came from cross-border data exchange, matching against health, justice and tax records, and automated proof of life.
Luís Montenegro's office has warned of a fraud circulating by WhatsApp and email in his name, asking people to sign a bogus 'confidentiality agreement' — even as a separate SMS scam impersonating the Health Ministry demands payment for fictitious hospital debts.
The Banco de Portugal (Bank of Portugal — BdP) has opened a public consultation on a new Estratégia Nacional para os Pagamentos (National Payments Strategy) running through 2030, and the document floats one headline tool that will reshape how the...
The Council of Ministers approved a CIVA rework on 11 June 2026 that shifts the VAT liquidation moment on combustíveis upstream to the entrepôt aduaneiro entry gateway — closing the missing-trader gap, alongside a paired SME capital-markets simplification package.
The Banco de Portugal formally stood up the Plataforma de Monitorização da Fraude Digital at a Lisbon conference on Monday 25 May 2026 , with Governor Álvaro Santos Pereira framing the launch as the first integrated national pipe to braid...
The Banco de Portugal registered 2,577 reclamações tied to fraud-affected payment operations across 2025, a 45% year-on-year increase that the supervisor flagged on Sunday 17 May 2026 as one of the principal conduct-risk vectors facing Portuguese...
Polícia Judiciária's Guarda DIC arrested three suspects on Wednesday 13 May in Operação 'Saco Roto', detecting more than €1.8 million of EU co-financing diverted across 30 operations. About €100,000 cash seized. Detainees presented to Tribunal de Instrução Criminal do Porto.
