Mega-operation of PJ and European colleagues on tax evasion for 300 million euros in Portugal

In cooperation with European colleagues, one of the largest operations ever carried out by the Portuguese authorities is being carried out.

We are talking about a tax evasion scheme through a carousel of fictitious companies. Found fraud in Portugal exceeds 300 million, and in Europe – there will be searches in eight more countries – fraud exceeds 1 billion. More than 100 searches are planned in our country on the South Coast, in Santarém, Figueira da Foz, Coimbra, Gaia, Porto, Guimarães and Braga.

The trial is conducted by the Porto Judicial Police, presided over by Judge Pedro Miguel Vieira of the Porto Criminal Court. At least 15 arrests and searches are planned in banking institutions, namely the headquarters of the Galician bank Abanca in Porto, where many of these millions, which should return to the state treasury, will go.