Year: 2017

The Metropolitan Command of the PSP of Lisbon, through the Criminal Investigation Division, on July 22 at 17:30 in the parish of Santa Maria Maior in Lisbon, executed an arrest warrant issued by the Judicial Authority, by arresting a man and a woman aged 52 and 58 years, suspected of carrying our robberies.

After investigation it was possible to verify that the couple perpetrated robberies through the use of violence and / or through the use of tablets that left the victims completely unconscious, which enabled them to steal the victim’s property. Subsequently, the victims were abandoned, unconscious, in the middle of the street, waking hours later, already in the hospital.

After investigation, it was possible to identify two suspects who were recognized by the victims.

A house search was carried out at the residence of the suspects and several articles were seized in the value of several thousands of euros, articles these bought with a credit card stolen from one of the victims. In the possession of the suspicion, several tablets were seized, whose chemical composition will be analysed.

The detainees, without any criminal record related to this type of illicit, were present at the Central Instance, 1st Criminal Investigation Section of the Court of the District of Lisbon, for 1st judicial interrogation, and were remanded in curody.

 

 

The Metropolitan Command of Porto, in the context of combating the crime of drug trafficking, arrest on 31^st July, at 21:55 pm, in, Vila Nova de Gaia, two men aged 21 and 23 years residing in Felgueiras.

Agents of the staff of the Division of Criminal Investigation who had the support of agents of the Police Intervention and Supervision Police of the Division of Vila Nova de Gaia, intercepted the suspects in the possession of Haxixe, Liamba , Cocaine and Ecstasy sufficient for about 5,002, 77, 05 and 15 individual doses respectively, as well as a light goods vehicle, three mobile phones and various objects used in the direct sale of narcotics.

The Judicial Police (PJ), through the Northern Board, announced Monday that it had arrested a 55-year-old man for allegedly carrying out a forest fire crime in Penafiel.

According to PJ, the fire occurred on Friday at 11:45 am “having endangered a large forest area and several dwellings, whose spread could only be avoided with the rapid intervention of firefighters.”

The detainee was present to the judicial authorities for the first judicial interrogation, being forced to present weekly at the police station in the area of ​​residence.

Since the beginning of the year, the PJ has identified and arrested 44 people for the crime of forest fire.

The Coastal Control Unit (UCC),using soldiers deployed on the islands of Samos and Kastellorizo, Greece, as part of the mission of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (FRONTEX), have rescued 133 migrants during a maritime patrol.

In the south of Pitagorio – Samos, 46 people (21 children, 11 women and 14 men) were rescued. In the eastern part of the island, 52 people (24 children, 11 women and 17 men) were rescued.

On the island of Ro, near the island of Kastellorizo, 35 people were rescued (17 children, 11 women and seven men), who were in rocks, where they swam after the ship in which they were passengers was shipwrecked.

The 133 migrants were rescued by Portuguese vessels and handed over to the Greek authorities.

The main objective of this FRONTEX operation is to prevent, detect and suppress illegal activities related to illegal immigration, trafficking in human beings and other cross-border crimes, but fundamentally contributing to the safeguarding of human lives at sea by search and rescue missions.

In less than a month, the Portuguese force deployed in Samos and Kastellorizo ​​has already rescued 297 migrants.

On 25^th July the GNR Oporto Territorial Command seized,  2 962 counterfeit articles with an estimated value of 35 thousand euros, in Vila Cova da Lixa.

The articles of clothing, footwear and suitcases were seized during a street vending and fair trade inspection operation.

Fifteen individuals, aged between 20 and 55 years old, were considered defendants, two of whom were Moroccan nationals.

A 43-year-old woman was detained at Humberto Delgado airport in Lisbon on suspicion of committing a crime of drug trafficking.

In a statement, the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) said that the woman, of foreign nationality, was intercepted upon arrival in the country when documentary checks were being carried out on passengers on a flight from Brazil.

SEF added that the woman was “Suspected of transporting narcotic drugs and confirmed that she had swallowed 23 capsules of liquid cocaine,” says the SEF

Three lawyers and four others who had ties to TAP airlines, one of them as a member of the Board of Directors, were charged on 14^th July 2017 by the Public Prosecutor’s Office with active corruption with prejudice to international trade, money laundering and falsification of documents.

According to information released by the Central Department of Investigation and Criminal Action (DCIAP), the scheme operated through an “apparent” provision of services to TAP by Sonair, a subsidiary company Sonangol. This allowed the Angolan oil company to place in Portugal, large sums of money.

“The investigation found that Sonair paid TAP more than € 25 million without the provision of services apparently contracted,” says the DCIAP.

According to the MP’s department, the money circulating from Sonair to TAP was then laundered by another company, Worldair.

“The latter, by receiving incomprehensibly high commissions (about 2/3 of the value of the business), allowed the money to be transferred to accounts outside Portugal. The amounts were still circulating offshore before returning to Portuguese accounts. In some cases, The money ended up being used for the acquisition of luxury real estate in Portugal “, says the DCIAP.

During the investigation, the MP seized nine properties, all registered on behalf of companies involved in the money laundering process.

The balances of 21 bank accounts were also seized, also on behalf of the front companies involved, and also requested that the amounts deposited there be declared lost in favour of the State. It was also requested the intervention of the Asset Recovery Office of the Judiciary Police.

The Public Ministry was assisted in this investigation by the Judiciary Police. Source Diario de Noticais

Scotland Yard investigates allegations of thousands of abusive messages received by medical professionals

Scotland Yard has been called in to investigate allegations that staff at Great Ormond Street hospital have been bombarded with violent threats and abuse over the case of the baby Charlie Guard

 Thousands of abusive messages, including death threats, have been sent to doctors and nurses at the children’s hospital in London, the chair of the hospital revealed. She said that staff were also facing abuse in the street. Families visiting their sick children had also been “harassed and discomfited,” they said.

The staff are being targeted by protesters opposed to Great Ormond Street hospital’s (GOSH) role in the treatment of baby Charlie, where doctors are seeking permission to turn off the youngster’s life-support machine.

Charlie’s parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, want the judge to rule that their 11-month-old son, who suffers from a rare genetic condition and has brain damage, should be allowed to undergo an experimental therapy overseen by a specialist in New York. Specialists at GOSH say the therapy would not help and that life-support treatment should stop.

Mary MacLeod, chair of Great Ormond Street hospital, said: “In recent weeks the GOSH community has been subjected to a shocking and disgraceful tide of hostility and disturbance. Staff have received abuse both in the street and online.

“Thousands of abusive messages have been sent to doctors and nurses whose life’s work is to care for sick children. Many of these messages are menacing, including death threats. Families have been harassed and discomforted while visiting their children and we have received complaints of unacceptable behaviour even within the hospital itself

“Great Ormond Street hospital is in close contact with the Metropolitan police and we will do everything possible to hold to account anybody who is involved in this kind of deplorable behaviour.” Mr Justice Francis is scheduled to analyse the most recent evidence at a hearing in the family division of the high court on Monday (Source The Guardian)

The Public Prosecutor has accused a man of rape, sexual coercion, robbery and possession of a prohibited weapon, practiced in Valongo.

The suspect was sentenced to pre-trial detention, the most serious measure of coercion, the prosecutor said in a statement posted on its Web site.

According to the indictment, quoted in the note from the District Attorney General’s Office (PGD) in Porto, the man approached, on April 16, in Valongo, three women, each in different situations, and threatening them with a razor blade and Forced them to sexual acts, having one of them robbed the wallet.

The Public Prosecutor has accused a man of rape, sexual coercion, robbery and possession of a prohibited weapon, which took place in Valongo.

The suspect was sentenced to pre-trial detention, the most serious measure of coercion, the prosecutor said in a statement posted on its Web site.

According to the indictment, quoted in the note from the District Attorney General’s Office (PGD) in Porto, the man approached, on April 16, in Valongo, three women, each in different situations, and threatening them with a razor blade and Forced them to sexual acts, having one of them robbed the wallet.