Judge rules EDP top brass were legally removed
Three and a half years after Judge Carlos Alexandre ordered the removal from office of the then EDP ‘top brass’ (António Mexia and Manso Neto), bail of a million euros
Judges want new rules, to prevent ‘dramas’ in complex cases
Specifically, to prevent uninformed judges deciding bail measures The fall of two governments in the last few months in the wake of corruption probes that then go pear-shaped at bail
Operation Influencer: judge puts boot in
Public Prosecutors’ thesis implicating PM “contradictory and vague” Almost four months since Portugal’s absolute majority government was toppled by a so-called corruption probe, very little appears to have moved forwards.
‘Super judge’ Carlos Alexandre moves to Lisbon Court of Appeal
After 20 years in Lisbon’s central criminal court(TCIC), overseeing some of the most high profile cases filling the media, 62-year-old judge Carlos Alexandre – frequently referred to by the tabloid
Duarte Lima’s trial for murder further postponed as judge removed from case
The trial of former PSD MP Duarte Lima for the murder of an elderly heiress in Brazil in 2009 has been postponed yet again, due to his objection to the
BES trial “at risk”
Judge’s health issues inch towards moment where ‘crimes’ could lapse The pre-trail hearing of the BES/GES case – the criminal investigation involving the largest private banking collapse in Portuguese history,
Judge gives neo-nazi leave to fight in Ukraine
Suspends order obliging Mário Machado to report bi-monthly to authorities Expresso reports today that a judge at TIC (the court of criminal instruction) in Lisbon has given neo-nazi former Hammerskins
Negationist former judge openly commits “public crime” to push genocide allegations
Negationist former judge Rui Fonseca e Castro has openly committed what he admits is a public crime, in order to push his ‘genocide allegations’. Now ‘expelled’ from sitting as a
Judge returns fortune to BES boss-of-all-this cousin before taking open-ended sick leave
Judge Ivo Rosa didn’t just called in sick on the eve of the opening of the ‘most complex criminal inquiry in the history of Portuguese investigation’ (click here), he did
BES: “most complex criminal inquiry in history of Portuguese investigation” doesn’t get off the ground as scheduled …
The instruction phase of the BES/ GES ‘mega-case’ was due to begin today, over seven years since the banking empire imploded, costing (still costing) the Portuguese taxpayer untold billions. In