A new probe into allegations of corruption has seen PJ police today arrest the current mayor of Espinho (PS) and set its sights too on the former mayor (PSD) Joaquim Pinto Moreira, currently an MP leading the commission for Constitutional Revision. Operation Vortex is said to involve “various licencing projects” for large developments in Espinho, including hotels, valued at “tens of millions of euros”. Also arrested today has been the current head of Espinho municipality’s department of urbanism and the environment. Further details will come tomorrow.
Operation Vortex: new corruption probe involves PS and PSD
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (C), flanked by the president of Portugal's parliament Augusto Santos Silva (R), and by the President of the Executive Committee of the North-South Center, Ambassador Francesca Camilleri Vettiger (L), MIGUEL A. LOPES/LUSA
