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Portugal's courts fail to clean up local council corruption

farocamaraOnly 6% of corruption cases brought by the state between 2008 and 2013 resulted in a conviction.

Between 2008 and 2013 more than half of corruption and embezzlement prosecutions were filed, according to the latest report from the Corruption Prevention Council, which reported that 40% of the cases that come to court for these types of crimes relate to local government and local authorities.

The crime of corruption in local councils accounted for 46.5% of the cases reported to the Corruption Prevention Council, with embezzlement by those at councils adding a further 25.4%.

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