Spanish police arrested 44 people last week on suspicion of being involved in a scam which stole thousands of euros specifically from company bosses.
While 43 of the arrests were made in Spain, one man was arrested in the UK close to an airport where the gang allegedly kept large sums of cash before sending it on to Nigeria.
The Algarve’s already crammed EN125 is to be cut between Maritenda and Fontainhas, a ten kilometre stretch, due to roadworks.
One reason for the complete closure is to repair the road spanning the Linha do Algarve railway line to the east of Boliqueime with the upgrade work meaning that the Algarve’s busiest section of the so called ‘alternative to the Via do Infante motorway' will be closed to traffic until at least July 15th - right in the height of the tourist season.
This week’s revelations about the money laundering activities of Russian gangsters in Portuguese and other European football circles come just days before an avalanche of new information is published from the leaked Panama Papers.
The Russian racket in Portugal was uncovered by the Polícia Judiária (PJ) with the support of Europol in an operation codenamed ‘Matrioskas,’ the name for traditional Russian wooden dolls of different sizes that fit inside one another.
Parliament has approved a Socialist Party proposal to reduce tolls on four formerly free motorways including the Algarve’s Via do Infante.
No date for the toll reductions has been given nor the level of discount but earlier musings by the governing party suggested this summer sometime, perhaps, depending on the budget.
The police force in Sweden is struggling as officers are leaving in record numbers.
In 2013, there were 70 officers under the age of 40 who quit. Another 95 left in 2014 while 2015 saw 121 depart from the force.
An AeroVIP Dornier DO-228 suffered catastrophic damage to an engine as the flight came in to land at Cascais aerodrome.
The bird-strike happened at an altitude of around 100 feet when the aircraft engine was hit by a passing seagull which was sucked into the engine.
There is no respite from fraudsters as mortgage fraud by identity thieves is reported to be on the increase.
One technique used by criminals is to apply for mortgages using the names of people who have recently died.
The average price of renting a place to live in the UK, excluding London, went up to £764 a month in the first three months of 2016.
In the Greater London area that figure rose to an average £1,543 per month, according to the latest figures from referencing firm HomeLet.
