Former BES banker Ricardo Salgado with “preliminary signs of Alzheimer’s disease”
Just home from a holiday in Sardinia – where Portuguese holidaymakers describe him speaking French in order to divert their attentions – former BES banker Ricardo Salgado is once again
Hundreds of motorists honk horns in disgust in Lisbon and Viseu as petition to oust Marquês judge hits 170,000 signatures
Hundreds of motorists honked their horns in ‘disgust’ in Lisbon and Viseu yesterday over the ‘pardoning’ by Judge Ivo Rosa of former prime minister José Sócrates for various crimes of
Thousands sign petition to remove Marquês judge Ivo Rosa from Portuguese magistrature
Within little more than 24-hours since he read out his extraordinary ‘instructory decision’ freeing former prime minister José Sócrates from myriad accusations of corruption, thousands of Portuguese have signed their
Portugal’s ‘bête noir’ former prime minister to hear on Friday if corruption accusation stands
The contortions of Portugal justice have seen to it that it has taken nearly seven years since former Socialist prime minister José Sócrates was arrested on suspicions of corruption for
Operation Marquês “unlikely to get hearing this time next year”
Appeal court judges have rejected yet another bid by former Socialist prime minister José Sócrates to have ‘superjudge’ Carlos Alexandre removed from the case, but the news is unlikely to
Key figure in Operation Marquês “imposes conditions” on his possible return to Portugal
Hélder Bataglia, the Portuguese-Angolan businessman and co-owner of Vale do Lobo resort, is described as negotiating his return to Portugal to answer questions relating to Operation Marquês – the public
New police swoop on Algarve luxury resorts
Following recent press attention surrounding Vale do Lobo’s connection to Operation Marquês – the corruption probe centring on former prime minister José Sócrates – Algarve resort Vale do Lobo has
Sócrates’ luxurious house arrest in building still registered as “warehouse”
No sooner was he ensconced under house-arrest in Lisbon than Portugal’s media has been looking behind-the-scenes at the unexplained luxury of Sócrates’ new address. Described still as a “barracão” (shed)
Sócrates leaves jail to house arrest after 41 weeks behind bars
Following possibly the longest period of detention-without-charge of a former prime minister of a democratic country, José Sócrates was finally released from Évora jail last night to house-arrest in Lisbon,
Operation Marquês’ latest defendant goes home to “luxury mansion”
Home in time to enjoy the long-weekend, Leiria businessman Joaquim Barroca Rodrigues has been released from jail on an electronic bracelet to the kind of domiciliary arrest many would dream