Month: January 2017

The Cybercrime Unit of the Judiciary Police (PJ) today announced the arrest of a woman who used her employer’s bank card codes to get her about 43,000 euros for almost a year.

According to the Unit to Combat Cybercrime and Technological Crime, the woman did domestic work at the injured person’s home in the Lisbon area and abused a trusting relationship using the cards to raise money for themselves.

The woman was present at a first judicial interrogation and the authorities seized several objects acquired with the money that was able to remove to the boss.

That specialized unit of the PJ also participated in Switzerland in an investigation into card-sharing cases, which consist of illegitimate access to coded television channels carried out by Portuguese people in Swiss territory.

Computer hardware was seized that will be examined by the Portuguese police to try to identify suspects.

The PJ warns that anyone who illegally accesses encrypted cable, satellite or fiber channels risks a sentence of up to three years in prison.

In accordance with the framework of a preventive operation to combat drug trafficking, the Criminal Investigation unit – Câmara de Lobos Police, have arrested a woman, residing in the municipality of Câmara de Lobos, indicted for the crime of drug trafficking.

Investigations carried out by the Security Police Public, resulted in the seizure of about 486 individual doses of product suspected of being “Pollen “Hashish”, which is prohibited by law, as well as a kitchen knife used to cut the narcotic used by consumers of these illegal psychoactive additives.

The detainee was constituted defendant, subject to expiration of identity and residence and was present at the Investigation and Criminal Action of the Judicial District of Madeira, for the first judicial interrogation and,

Application of other measures of coercion was made, where it confirmed the measure of term and identity and residence.

The Regional Command of the PSP of Madeira recommends to all citizens that, whenever they have knowledge of or suspect a crime to contact, in the shortest possible time the PSP Police Station in order to enable police intervention in good time and for better service to the community.

The Regional Police of the Public Security Police of Madeira reports that, following a shooting incident in the Serra de Agua area, the PSP Ribeira Brava, have intercepted and detained a male person residing in Ribeira Brava, indicted for the possession of different weapons, detonators and a firearm. These included long barrel weapons and various munitions in conditions contrary to the legal regime of arms and ammunition.

The arrested suspect was also identified as allegedly shooting a person with a shotgun who subdued him, striking him in the lower and upper limbs. The assailant then left the scene with tendering any help to the victim.

The victim was transported to the hospital and was admitted but without any life threatening injuries.

In subsequent police investigations carried out in the locality jointly by patrols of the Ribeira Brava, Ponta do Sol, São Vicente and the Criminal Investigation unit, it was possible to recover and seize the firearm used in the attack, which had been hidden by the assailant.

The detainee was constituted defendant and subject to expiration of identity and residence. Evidence is being collected in collaboration with the Judicial Police, before determining the full nature of the incident..

A 40-year-old Republican National Guard (GNR) military man was stabbed this morning 26^th January by three individuals in the area of Campanário.

According to DAILY, the victim was off duty and was attacked when he went to the cafe accompanied by his family, where he was approached by these individuals, who hit him in the arm.

It is known that in these last days the GNR have carried out a service where the alleged aggressors were targeted and booked, all leading to believe that it was a reprisal.

The perpetrators of the crime fled but were soon identified and detained by the GNR. They are currently in the GNR barracks that will later contact the Public Prosecutor to see if they will or will not be present today in court.

The Public Security Police seized drugs and a large sum of money – some tens of thousands of euros – allegedly resulting from drug trafficking, which was held by two individuals.

The seizure resulted from a discreet operation to combat narcotics trafficking that was carried out last Tuesday by agents of the Criminal Investigation Station of Funchal. The seizure were made following the execution of search warrants but the full details have not yet been released by the PSP Regional Command.

 

The PSP detained six people and seized drugs of various kinds, in Castelo Branco, following eight home searches conducted during the night, announced the District Command of Castelo Branco.

In a statement, the PSP of Castelo Branco explains that the detainees, five men and one woman, between the ages of 18 and 30, are all suspected of committing crimes related to drug trafficking.

The arrests were made following eight home searches carried out at dawn in the city of Castelo Branco by elements of the criminal investigation squad and two dog teams of the Special Police Unit.

“High amounts of narcotics were seized, as well as various objects related to the crimes committed and also money that is suspected to result from the illicit activity carried out by the inmates,” reads the statement from the PSP of Castelo Branco.

Among the material seized by the agents are 1400 grams of hashish, 775 LSD seals, 50 ecstasy tablets, three cannabis sativa plants and about 100 grams of the same substance already dried and ready for consumption, 0.8 grams Of MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) and 0.26 grams of ketamine.

Also seized were 850 euros in cash, 12 mobile phones, a portable computer, 16 ammunition of prohibited firearms and an explosive smoke signaling device.

“This police operation results from an investigation carried out by this police, under the coordination of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Castelo Branco, which originated in detentions carried out some time ago by several individuals for drug trafficking in educational establishments in this city,”

SIS official Carvalhão Gil, arrested in May in Rome for alleged espionage and violation of state secrecy and other crimes, is still under house arrest after the Lisbon Court of Appeal today dismissed the appeal.

According to a note from the TRL, sent to Lusa agency, “the measure of coercion of obligation of permanence in housing was maintained, and the appeal was dismissed.”

The SIS agent was arrested in Rome on 21 May caught in the act of sellingl NATO information to a Russian spy holder with a diplomatic passport as part of an investigation involving the Central Criminal Investigation and Action Department (DCIAP) ), The Judicial Police, which deployed investigators to Italy, and EUROJUST.

At stake are crimes of espionage, breach of state secrecy, corruption and money laundering related to suspicions of transmission of information, in exchange for money, by the SIS official to the Russian intelligence agent. Reported in Jornal de Noticais

Car accidents are the main cause of death for British holidaymakers. Outside Europe, life for road users is getting riskier

British holidaymakers travelling abroad have never been safer – and the main reason is dramatically improved road safety.

Research by The Independent in the UK has concluded that the average death toll on the roads since 1991 has fallen by two-thirds across western Europe.

Spain, the most popular destination for British tourists, has done even better. Road safety has seen a five-fold improvement, with road deaths 81 per cent lower than they were a quarter-century ago. Only neighbouring Portugal has done better, with 82 per cent fewer fatalities.

Road accidents are the main cause of death for UK holidaymakers, and the dramatic enhancement of road safety in key destinations means the overall risk profile has dwindled, even as concerns over terrorism increase.

Once beyond the European Union, roads become much more dangerous. Turkey has almost four times as many road fatalities per capita than Britain, while Egypt is almost off the scale: in a country where car ownership is lower than the UK, the fatal accident rate is nearly 10 times higher

The Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF), with the collaboration of the National Republican Guard, carried out a surveillance action in the Arganil area, in which it identified seven foreign citizens in an irregular situation, detected working without documentation for this purpose.

The individuals concerned were found to have worked irregularly for a national company, having entered the national territory under a visa-free regime for tourism purposes, which is why they could not carry out employment in Portugal.

Of the seven citizens detected, one had previously been detained for falsification of documents and irregular stay.

The remaining six were notified of voluntary abandonment of national territory, within a period of twenty days, otherwise, in case of non-compliance, they will be detained and coercively removed from Portugal

On 19th January the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) detained at the Lisbon Airport a foreign citizen in fulfillment of an arrest warrant for extradition issued by the Spanish authorities.

The 32-year-old man, intercepted by SEF upon arrival in Portugal from London, is suspected of assault on armoured vans in the Barcelona area.

The detainee was present at the Court of Appeal and, by judicial determination, taken to the Prison at the Judicial Police where he awaits the further terms of the extradition process for Spain.

At the end of last week, the SEF also detained, at the Lisbon Airport, another foreign citizen, 62, in compliance with an arrest warrant for serving a prison sentence. Interviewed by SEF as he prepared to embark for Praia / Cape Verde, he was wanted to serve a four-year and three-month prison sentence for attempted manslaughter and possession of a prohibited weapon. He was taken to the Lisbon Prison to fulfil his prison sentence.