The authorities have already demanded the seizure of Jacques Rodriguez’s mansion in Quinta da Marinha.

Jacques Rodriguez, owner of the Impala Group, was arrested by the Judicial Police (PJ) this Thursday morning for a €100 million fraud. The authorities have already demanded the seizure of the assets of Jacques Rodriguez. The mansion of the owner of the Impala is one of the objects requiring immediate arrest.

The owner of the Impala group was arrested along with three other people, Jacques’ son, a lawyer and a staff auditor, as part of PJ’s “Ultima Edition” operation. Ten people were also recognized as defendants. These are the alleged offenses of passive corruption, active corruption, malicious aggravated insolvency, skilled fraud, and forgery or forgery of documents.

A scheme has been identified that involves manipulating the accounts of several companies to the detriment of employees cm. Jacques Rodriguez managed to keep the assets by transferring them to other people’s names and opening other companies.

There have already been dozens of complaints against the owner of the Impala group in the courts, but Jacques Rodriguez has always managed to avoid justice. The operation was carried out in Lisbon, Sintra, Cascais, Oeiras, Amadora, Santo Tirso, Porto, Matosinhos and Funchal, with authorities executing 32 search warrants, eight home searches and twenty-four out-of-home searches, according to press reports. exemption from IP.

There were also six searches of social media companies, four of government auditors’ firms/departments, and one of a lawyer’s office.

“We are talking about a criminal investigation, the object of which is a criminal plan aimed, among other things, at hiding the embezzlement of assets by falsifying elements of the accounting of several companies at the clear disadvantage of several creditors, for example, workers, suppliers and the state with recognized loans for total amount of about 100,000,000.00 euros (one hundred million euros),” the statement said.

“In addition, there are clear signs of a leakage of value occurring in corporate structures outside the national territory in a global amount that will amount to tens of thousands of euros,” he adds.

The detainees will be present at the Sintra Criminal Court for the first judicial examination of the detained defendants, in order to apply such coercive measures as they deem appropriate.

According to Saturday, a group of 27 creditors/employees from Descobrirpress, the owner of the Impala media group, said the company had overlooked information that it had made a collective layoff in 2020, and they add that the company was managed through millions of dollars in business-to-business transactions by the Impala group turning debt to capital.

Special revitalization processes requested by the company, initiated in 2014, delay the payment of debts to former and current employees of the company for several years.