Justice

A Portuguese judge has broken silence two days after a banker who has stashed €21 million in offshores shows no intention to return to Portugal to serve a 3-year prison sentence for fraud and [...]

The ex-president of defunct Banco Privado Português (BPP), João Rendeiro has been sentenced to three years and seven months in prison for qualified fraud. At the root of the lawsuit was a [...]

A Portuguese banker who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for tax fraud, abuse of trust and money laundering has had part of a court’s judgement overturned on appeal. The Lisbon Court of Appeal [...]

A total of 294 tax payers including former Socialist prime minister José Sócrates stand accused of hiding fortunes from the Portuguese tax authorities in Switzerland. Both individuals and [...]

Two reports used in the defence of former president of Banco Espírito Santo have blamed the management that followed him for the gargantuan losses which led the bank to collapse in 2014. Ricardo [...]

Benfica boss — it’s all over Luís Filipe Vieira, the Benfica boss at the centre of a multimillion euro fraud and tax evasion scandal, has finally officially resigned as president of the football [...]

A high profile trial involving the former boss of the Banco Espírito Santo Group, Ricardo Salgado, began in Lisbon this week. The banker who once purportedly boasted “he owned the whole lot” [...]

The Portuguese businessman, investor and speculator who amassed the world-famous modern art collection ‘The Berardo Collection’ housed in Lisbon, has been arrested by police on fraud charges. The [...]

The European Union’s Court of Justice has overturned a decision from the European Commission which had given the green light to a €1.2Bn aid package to bailout Portugal’s national carrier TAP. [...]

A Portuguese judge has jailed a banker to 10 years in prison for falsifying IT data in order to cover up the true extent of the financial instability of now defunct private bank BPP. The judge [...]