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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.
The Portugal Brief
DCIAP Loses 12 of Its 44 Prosecutors in Under Three Years and an Inspection Finds One in Five Did Not Meet Basic Requirements — The Ministério Público's Top Investigative Unit Heads Into 2026 Short-Staffed and Censured

DCIAP Loses 12 of Its 44 Prosecutors in Under Three Years and an Inspection Finds One in Five Did Not Meet Basic Requirements — The Ministério Público's Top Investigative Unit Heads Into 2026 Short-Staffed and Censured

DCIAP, the Ministério Público's top investigative unit, has lost 12 of 44 prosecutors in under three years. An inspection finds one in five did not meet basic qualification requirements and that justice-officer staffing is 'manifestly insufficient' in five of seven sections.
The Portugal Brief
Chega Files a Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito to the Operação Influencer on Monday — Ventura Wants António Costa and His Former Ministers Summoned After a New PJ Wiretap on the Sines Data Centre

Chega Files a Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito to the Operação Influencer on Monday — Ventura Wants António Costa and His Former Ministers Summoned After a New PJ Wiretap on the Sines Data Centre

Chega tables a comissão parlamentar de inquérito to the Operação Influencer on Monday 5 May. Ventura wants ex-PM Costa and his ministers summoned after a new PJ wiretap of a Christmas Eve 2022 call on the Sines data centre. Chega's 60 seats clear the one-fifth potestative threshold.
The Portugal Brief
Football Leaks Whistleblower Rui Pinto Walks Out of His Second Trial Acquitted of All 241 Counts — Lisbon's Central Criminal Court Voids the Indictment as Constitutionally Defective and Says a 'Stretch of His Life' Cannot Be Tried Twice

Football Leaks Whistleblower Rui Pinto Walks Out of His Second Trial Acquitted of All 241 Counts — Lisbon's Central Criminal Court Voids the Indictment as Constitutionally Defective and Says a 'Stretch of His Life' Cannot Be Tried Twice

Lisbon's Central Criminal Court acquitted Rui Pinto of all 241 charges in the second Football Leaks trial Wednesday, voiding the Public Prosecutor's indictment as constitutionally defective and rejecting double prosecution on substantively identical facts.
The Portugal Brief