The Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) told local media outlet JM on Thursday that searches took place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Madeira, specifically at the Institute for Mobility and Transport (IMT) and the Santa Cruz Municipality (CMSC). The MP clarified that these were part of two separate ongoing inquiries at…
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Yesterday, Judiciary Police (PJ)Inspectors carried out a series of searches at the premises of the Regional Secretariat for Equipment and Infrastructures and the Institute of Mobility and Transport. Today, the PJ searched the offices of the Municipality of Santa Cruz. The Regional Secretariat for Equipment and Infrastructures told reporters that…
The Judiciary Police (PJ) is examining a semi-rigid boat found yesterday off the Madeiran coast. The vessel is often associated with drug trafficking operations on the high seas, especially in the transfer of drugs from larger to smaller vessels. The boat was located and seized by the Maritime Police in…
The body that was found on the 4th of July last year in a small lagoon near levada Nova dos Cahas has now been formally identified as Gabriel Ionut Feraru, born on the 30th of April 1987, in Mangalia, a Romanian city by the Black Sea. He had been working…
A 34-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman, arrested last year by the Judiciary Police during a drug trafficking operation in Câmara de Lobos and Funchal, will remain in custody at the Funchal Prison in Cancela until their trial. The defendants were heard in the first interrogation court at the District…
Two defendants have been identified as causing the August 2024 fire that destroyed more than 5,100 hectares in Madeira, including Laurissilva areas, and which lasted for 13 days. The confirmation was given to JM by the PJ coordinator in the Region, JosĂ© Matos, who stressed that these defendants are already…
Expresso has reported that the National Unit for Combating Drug Trafficking of the Judiciary Police (PJ) carried out searches in medical cannabis plantations in several parts of the country, including the island of Madeira. The same media outlet reports that 64 searches have already been carried out in cannabis plantations…
The Judiciary Police (PJ) carried out a police operation today, which led to the detainment of three defendants, two of them were arrested under the suspicion of corruption, fraud in obtaining aggravated subsidy, qualified tax fraud, and money laundering, having damaged the Portuguese State and the European Union (EU) for…
The President of the Regional Government, Miguel Albuquerque, reacted this Wednesday to the mega-operation of the Judiciary Police in the Region. In a press statement, he reiterated: “As I said yesterday, the Government is fully available to collaborate, as it has always had, with all investigations. An investigation is not…
Over the weekend the Judiciary Police (PJ) carried out a police operation, consisting of five non-home searches, targeting a set of stores in a commercial area in the centre of Lisbon,
The Judiciary Police (PJ) announced today that it has dismantled a structure that created thousands of "hello father, hello mother" computer scams
The four defendants involved in Operation 'Traveler's Route II' have been told by the Criminal Investigation Judge of the interim bail measures.Â
The Judiciary Police (PJ), through the Criminal Investigation Department of Madeira,
RTP has reported that the operation that brought a contingent of Judiciary Police agents to the Region has already resulted in the arrest of five people, who will be taken to Lisbon, where they will be heard in the first interrogation.
The deployment of about 60 members of the Judiciary Police to Madeira remains shrouded in secrecy.