Finance Minister, Mário Centeno, will not appreciate the latest attempt to prove he is a liar as the new committee of inquiry into the 'goings on' at Caixa Geral de Depósitos swings into action, calling first the controversial millionaire former boss of the bank, António Domingues.
The inquiry kicks off on April 28th and will look specifically at the Ministry of Finance’s performance in the appointment and later dismissal of the previous board of directors of the troubled bank.
The Portuguese and Italian banking sectors are the two weakest in the eurozone, according to the latest Global Financial Stability Report from the International Monetary Fund.
The Portuguese banking sector’s profitability, or lack of, is highlighted in the report as there has only been one year in the past six that, 2015, that has shown a positive result.
Starting today and ending on Sunday 23rd April, GNR road traffic units will be concentrating on catching speeding motorists by using their devilish range of mobile and fixed speed control gizmos.
Concentrating on roads where speeding already has proven to be the cause of serious accidents, the GNR aims to add to this year’s catch of 44,000 motorists fined for exceeding the speed limit.
Overseas 
Britons wanting to vote need to check they are on the electoral roll at their last UK address and then can apply for a postal or proxy vote.
Those who have lived outside the UK for 15 years or more remain unable to vote as the long-promised rule change has not been put into effect.
Lee Mackenzie, author of a book published this week called The Charming Predator, is hoping to flush out the notorious, international conman Kenner Elias Jones, her former husband. He was last reported to the police while seeking political asylum in Sweden, writes Len Port
Originally from Caernarfon in Wales, Jones absconded from a trial in Lewes Crown Court in Sussex, England, in 2003. He has been at large ever since, continuing a career of theft, deception and fraud.
The Spanish leader, Mariano Rajoy, will be called as a witness in the Gurtel corruption case that is investigating a vast network involving several leaders of the Popular Party, which Rajoy leads.
The decision was approved by a majority of the three judges - two for and one against - who make up the National Court, a court specialising in political/financial and terrorism cases.
Portugal’s Communist Party wants the Government to provide parliament with all the documentation on the judicial process between the State and Santander Totta in the swaps contracts fiasco.
The parliamentary group of the PCP already has submitted an application to the Parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee to request the documents from the Ministry of Finance. This request was unanimously approved today in parliament.
A network of 100 distribution groups for the sexual exploitation of children through various digital platforms has been dismantled with one of the 38 arrests made in Portugal
More than 100 groups used Whatsapp and Darkweb to share child pornography. The criminals were detected in a transnational police operation to combat the distribution of child porn using digital platforms.
