The former head of legal services at Banco Espírito Santo, Rui Silveira, said in court on Monday that BES depositors were covered because the bank left provisions to reimburse everyone.
The lawyer coordinated the Legal Department of BES and advised the Board of Directors between 1992 and 2000. He then advised the board of directors until the bank went bust in August 2014.
The Public Prosecutor's Office is on the case of Caixa Geral de Depósitos and suspects that senior managers of the State-owned bank have been fiddling the books for years to hide losses, despite these managers having just been cleared by MPs on a Commission of Inquiry.
The prosecutor claims that non-performing loans, a minimum of €1.4 billion has been mentioned, were classed as 'active' even though repayments had stopped with borrowers defaulting between 2007 and 2016.
The public prosecutor has charged 25 Lisbon airport baggage handlers with theft, thus ending the misery and anger suffered by hundreds of passengers fllying in and out of Portugal's capital.
The defendants, employees of a ground handling company at the airport, had access to passengers’ luggage as they loaded and unloaded cases in the baggage area.
Last Friday, July 7th, the National Election Commission gave Vila Real de Santo António’s council until Monday morning to remove posters announcing great works achieved by the municipality.
These posters were seen as the local political party getting involved in promoting the council “to the detriment of others," and hence, broke pre-election rules.
Three Secretaries of State who took free, expenses paid trips to the Euro 2016 match in March, resigned on Sunday, "to avoid harming the government."
Fernando Rocha Andrade, João Vasconcelos and Jorge Costa Oliveira saw nothing wrong at all in accepting the boondoggle on offer from energy giant, Galp, despite the fact that Galp owes the State a significant amount in back-tax and continues to challenge the ‘Extraordinary Contribution of the Energy Sector' tax that everyone one else in the energy sector seems to have had no credible objection to paying.
Last year, total toll receipts from drivers using the Algarve’s Via do Infante motorway contributed 66% of the total sum paid to the concession holder.
Motorists using the formerly free road, were relieved of €35.7 million in 2016, according to the annual report of the Technical Unit for the Monitoring of Projects.
From August 1st, the emergency department at Faro hospital will have no surgeons available over the weekends.
"Without a surgeon, people die," said Martine dos Santos, director of the Surgery Service, noting that the situation is "very serious."
Men have to wait 180 days to remarry but women are faced with a 300 day period. The Attorney General, Joana Marques Vidal, says this "discriminatory, unjustified and inadmissible."
The different waiting period for men and for women violates the constitutional principle of equality, as well as the Constitution that states that, "everyone has the right to start a family and to get married on an equal basis," according to a welcome statement from the Attorney General's Office that has been submitted to parliament.
