The detainees under Operation Picoas will be held until next Monday, when the day of the application of coercive measures will be known. In total, the detainees will spend 11 nights in the institutions of the Judicial Police.
Armando Pereira, co-founder of Altice, was detained last Thursday after searches were made at his home in Gilhofrey, Braga. Ernani Vas Antunes and his daughter, Jessica Antunes and economist Alvaro Gil Loureiro are others arrested as part of the operation.
At stake are crimes of money laundering, tax fraud, in particular, in the sale of a number of buildings of the former Marconi real estate fund, located in the Picoas district of Lisbon and valued at hundreds of millions of euros.
Author: Deborah Carvalho
Source: CM Jornal
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