Paul Rees
An investigation into Portugal’s ruinous Public Private Partnership (PPP) road building programme reveals that two former Public Works Ministers, Mário Lino and António Mendonça, and the former Secretary of State for Public Works, Paulo Campos have had their phone tapped since 2012.As a result, a criminal investigation is being finalised into suspicions of their criminal association, corruption, harmful management, influence peddling, tax fraud and money laundering.
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EDP’s first quarter results were down 23% on the same period last year, mainly due to the sale of its natural gas distribution business in the Iberian Peninsula and adverse exchange rates.
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A Criminal Investigation team from Loulé's GNR has nabbed a 29-year-old man suspected of at least nine burglaries.
