Financial analyst Catarina Castro, who was President of the regional delegation of SEDES – Association for Economic Development, is being investigated by the Judiciary Police and the Ministry of Social Affairs. Following criminal proceedings for alleged fraud and abuse of trust that have harmed several Madeirans, including former MEP Sérgio…
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Yesterday, the Judiciary Police, through Madeira’s Criminal Investigation Department, arrested a couple accused of committing ten counts of qualified fraud and three counts of simple fraud, after carrying out arrest warrants issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Ponta do Sol. The criminal scheme began in November 2024 and lasted…
The President of PS-Madeira today demanded public clarification from the Regional Government regarding the case of alleged fraud with European funds under PRODERAM, currently under judicial investigation. On the sidelines of a visit to the Anona Regional Exhibition, in Faial, the socialist leader considered that the Regional Executive, as the…
The Judiciary Police (PJ) coordinated, in the districts of Lisbon and Funchal, an operation to combat fraud in the allocation of European funds for reforestation projects in Madeira, with damages estimated at more than 3.6 million euros, as part of an investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, and…
Today, the Judiciary Police arrested an endocrinologist suspected of involvement in a fraudulent scheme to prescribe medicines covered by the National Health Service (SNS), in an operation that had a major focus in Funchal. The investigation, conducted by the PJ’s Northern Directorate, included several searches in different cities of the…
The director of Funchal Customs, João Paulo Matias, is reportedly the target of searches carried out by the Judiciary Police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office, with the presence of a prosecutor, “under suspicion of economic participation in business and personal favouritism of his own wife,” states CNN Portugal. According to…