A building, sold to the Municipality of Albufeira for 1.7 million euros, but which had been officially purchased, months before, for 825 thousand euros. This has been revealed as the main line of investigation of “Operation Emporium” that is carrying out searches in the Algarve municipality due to suspicions of corruption and tax fraud, according to the Jornal de Notícias (JN) newspaper.
An albino python snake over 4 meters in length was this Thursday, March 5th, captured in the late afternoon at Fonte da Benémola, in Loulé, by two ICNF nature watchmen following reports of the exotic reptile at around 16:00, by a family of distressed tourists who were taking hiking at the protected site under the jurisdiction of the Municipality of Loulé.
The Albufeira City Council was the target of searches by the Judiciary Police early this morning, Thursday, March 5th. This was revealed by broadcaster SIC Notícias and later confirmed by regional news website Sul Informação.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICNJ) have today revealed that the government is likely to freeze proceeds from the expected sale of billionaire Angolan heiress Isabel dos Santos’ 42.5% stake in the EuroBic bank, worth around 180 million euros. This revelation originally came from central bank governor Carlos Costa, who told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday.
Lisbon-based company Tesselo is a tech company which is capable of using satellite imagery with AI-based algorithms, to help improve future infrastructure. As an example of what they’re capable of, when Hurricane Dorian hit the US last summer, houses got wrecked, creeks overflowed and vast stretches of land flooded. But help came from an unlikely source on this side of the pond.
In recent years Portugal has achieved success in tackling childhood obesity – one of the main health challenges in the WHO (World Health Organization) European Region – with their sugary drinks tax. Childhood obesity is obviously a complex public health issue, caused by many factors, it intersects significantly with socioeconomic status, for example. As obesity can establish behaviours at a young and vulnerable age, the government felt they had a duty to protect children from a phenomenon that can ultimately become a health burden for the rest of their lives.
The Government will invest 2.8 million euros in the Hospitals of Faro and Portimão. The announcement was made by Jamila Madeira, Secretary of State for Health, on Monday. The Algarvian official, who was in Faro for a meeting with the Board of Directors of the University Hospital Centre of the Algarve (CHUA) in subsequent contact with press confirmed that this investment will be divided between Faro and Portimão.
Police and tax inspectors have carried out a series of nationwide searches on Wednesday morning with a number of high profile football club's offices being targeted, most notably Portugal's “big three”: