Appeal court judges confirm 10-year jail term for corruption of former minister of economy
Manuel Pinho’s lawyer has written a book focusing on his client’s innocence… Lisbon Appeal Court judges today have confirmed the 10-year prison sentence delivered to former economy minister Manuel Pinho
Former banker Salgado, suffering from Alzheimer’s, faces new trial
Ricardo Salgado to be tried for two further crimes, this time tax fraud The pursuit of former banker Ricardo Salgado, these days debilitated by Alzheimer’s disease, continues – in spite
All eyes on BES trial as Salgado’s cousin claims: “He tried to bribe me”
Ricardo Salgado may not be physically in courtroom, but his name is never out of it With the ‘budget drama’ essentially sorted (PS abstention assures approval of the minority government’s
BES judges listen to recording of Salgado’s ‘parliamentary grilling’
MPs questioned BES boss Ricardo Salgado for 10 hours in 2014 With Ricardo Salgado – the main defendant in the open-ended trial that has begun into the collapse of Portugal’s
‘Corrupt’ former minister and paymaster “unlikely to serve jail time”
Plans for Manuel Pinho and Ricardo Salgado already being mapped Last week was ostensibly focused on how “for the first time in Portugal’s democratic history, a former member of government
Experts suggest former BES boss “exaggerating” Alzheimer’s symptoms
Defence dismisses observations Former BES boss Ricardo Salgado’s potential ‘Get out of Jail’ card (his diagnosis of Alzheimer’s) appears to have been put at risk by observations by two ‘experts
Former BES banker – cited in multiple criminal cases – “gets lost in own home”
Ricardo Salgado’s wife gives intensely sad update The wife of Portugal’s former BES bank chief Ricardo Salgado has told a court today that her husband “has no independence whatsoever” due
Ricardo Salgado accused of further crimes of fiscal fraud
Former president of BES bank, and suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease, Ricardo Salgado has been accused of two new crimes of fiscal fraud (on top of the crimes he is currently
Salgado’s neurological illness ‘not sufficient to preclude him from court’
Medical experts describe former BES boss’ level of incapacity as ‘moderate’ Defence lawyers acting for former BES ‘boss-of-all-this’ Ricardo Salgado have long argued that any kind of stay in jail
Former banking boss, 79, launches ‘last ditch’ appeal against 8-years behind bars
… a sentence that will kill him, argues defence Ricardo Salgado, the former CEO of Banco Espírito Santo (BES), the private Portuguese bank that collapsed in 2014 in a scandal