A series of articles on news from the Portuguese media, but not only, translated into English, so that the world can learn about the true criminal and highly dysfunctional insane state of this country. Portugal is a country with infinitely more corruption and (financial) crime than the world realizes, because corruption and theft take all “legal” forms and are deeply rooted in all democratic bodies and civil society, including the judiciary, which is nothing more than a umbrella of “legal” protection for a dictatorship of countless criminals.
This tragic situation, which cuts across all strata of Portuguese society, will never be reversed (from within), because it is accepted by the great majority of the Portuguese population as a matter of “culture” (more like crook culture), and I add that, is even a much appreciated and coveted life goal for the Portuguese people in general, i.e. being a great crook (chico-esperto, smart-ass con artist), however bizarre it may sound.
But even more chilling than that, is that Portugal is actually a dictatorship, since there is no real separation of powers between the judiciary and the political power. One only has to read the news on this website to very clearly realize this very frightening reality.
However, very unfortunately it is very difficult to find really relevant and in-depth news in Portugal about the extremely serious anti-democratic and mind-boggling problems so typical of that country, even so, I always do my best.
Also, it is to be expected that 99.99999% of the crimes against anonymous citizens and the violation of their fundamental human rights that occur every day in that fake democracy are not reported by the media, becoming sadly forever forgotten.
The answer is clearly YES, and that is the intention. And at the same time it's a nightmare for honest people. The Portuguese state and all governments in Portugal have never had and will never have a real desire to change the state of things, because it goes against the interests not only of the politicians, but in essence of most of Portuguese society, which coexists very well with the corrupt, thieves and scum in general.
"We don't know the real number of fraud cases in Portugal," says Ana Carla Almeida. Thank you! That is very reassuring to know! In Portugal it is like this: 2,709 suspected cases of fraud in the use of European funds were reported in the QREN, but so far there have only been two cases of proven fraud, involving 200 thousand euros in agricultural aid. In Portugal 2020, there were 1,320 suspected cases and none proven.
In Portugal, deputies serve those who "financed" them, not the people who elected them. Many deputies are also managers of companies with which the state negotiates contracts with Portuguese money. (!!!)
This Portuguese deputy, who seems to be an upright person, reveals with simple but startling words a series of very serious and disturbing facts that expose the false Portuguese democracy at the service of criminals, with the usual connivance and passivity of most Portuguese people.
It is the total impunity in Portugal! These countless crooks have carte blanche to steal from anyone at any time. The case presented here is frighteningly the same as what happened to me, practically the only difference is the object of purchase...
Portuguese Golden Visas are only a good idea on paper, in reality, many, if not most people involved in this scheme (scam), to a greater or lesser degree, have seen their lives wiped out, or at least their return and experience fell far short of what was promised by the countless, let's call them "actors" of this tragic comedy that in the whole world could only happen in Portugal.
Six thousand people scammed! Just because they bought a house to live in! These six thousand defrauded people bought their houses with official documents issued by the City Council, explicitly stating that they were houses for "habitation", but after a few years they discovered that they had not purchased a "house" in the legal sense, but rather an "accommodation unit" intended for commercial tourism.
How to be a millionaire and become poor instantly? Bring all your money to Portugal! This insolvency case is completely buried, as you will read, in very strong factual illegalities committed, as well as numerous indicators also strongly suspicious of criminal activity, to say the least, however, as this is Portugal, absolutely nothing is ever investigated, because everyone is in on it.
The Portuguese political class is in fact, for the most part, a "mega center of corruption in plain sight", where the greatest promiscuity reigns between people who alternate between holding public office and managing business groups that supply the Portuguese state.
In what country does an entire class of professionals emigrate en masse? Even more so of a class as important to a country and its health as nurses! I honestly don't know, nor have I ever heard of such a thing, because not even in so-called third world countries does this happen on such scale!
Portugal is a country full of urgent needs at all levels and measly salaries, yet it can pay 4 million euros from the public purse for a medicine to be administered in Portugal to some citizens living in Brazil, for the simple reason that they, in their own words, “knew the daughter-in-law of the President of the Portuguese Republic, who knew the Minister of Health”.
Although it was a television contest, it speaks volumes about the primitive mentality and positioning of the Portuguese people in general, completely out of step with the democratic and free world of modern nations in the 21st century...
Be very careful with some Portuguese dentists, because you can find real butchers and sociopaths, like this swindler, who not only destroys people's mouths, as also keeps their money and even has the nerve to send his victims to see a psychiatrist.
Forgive my expression, but this already seems like an orgy of corrupt. The shamelessness, the lack of scruples, the normality is absolutely abysmal in Portugal. Contracts worth more than 70 thousand euros are awarded directly to one-person companies that have been set up in a hurry, a month ago or very recently, and therefore have no history or even clients.
The organized group, made up of driving school owners, instructors and examiners, provided exam students, who paid 1,000 to 5,000 euros, with technological equipment designed to capture the questions that appeared on the theoretical exam monitor...
The festival of corruption in Portuguese parishes continues in full swing. And all parties are invited. These contracts are invariably surrounded by pompous names, but in practice they say nothing about the real value that this "friendly" person or entity provides to the parish council.
Money, money, money, tax money for me, for you, for all of us and also for my dog, who deserves it. And the feast with Portuguese taxpayers' money continues, this time with the current party in power. Personal contracts by direct agreement without public tender reaching values of 123,000 euros (of course, this only scratches the surface).
The former Prime Minister of Portugal, José Sócrates, was, as far as is known, the most corrupt person in Portugal to occupy the highest executive position of the Portuguese State, however, as we can read in this necessarily long and dumbfounding post, he was acquitted (as is the norm in Portugal) of all extremely serious charges, namely corruption, being charged only with peanuts...
How to run a country into the ground and still be hailed as a hero by the people of that same country? It is enough to have been the most corrupt and destructive Prime Minister of Portugal...
Would you like to know how Portuguese "justice" works? The judge presiding over the trial of the Face Oculta case announced today that "HAS BEEN ORDERED THE IMMEDIATE DESTRUCTION OF WIRETAPS" made to former Prime Minister José Sócrates. Kim Jong Un would be so proud of the Portuguese
The usual scams in Portugal, in this case dental clinics that, after receiving money from unsuspecting victims, do not provide any treatment or adequate and professional treatment, but keep the clients' money.
ATTENTION, what this article reports is extremely serious, because in fact it leaves no doubt, absolutely NO doubt, that Portugal is a DICTATORSHIP! This is one of the most important articles on this blog, if not the most important and revealing about the dictatorship that is Portugal.
I don't know whether to laugh or or throw up at this news about Portuguese customs. However, whether this happened in the Middle Ages or now is irrelevant, because Portuguese back then could not be genetically different from Portuguese people today... What does that say about the mental state of these people?
This shocking news is a very good report of how most public hospitals in Portugal work, with more or less seriousness. It is very frightening to know that a patient who goes to a Portuguese hospital in search of help actually runs the risk of leaving in a worse state of health than when he entered, or even of suffering a very common "accidental" death, for which there is never a responsible or culpable party.
"All agents of the Public Ministry (who can no longer be called magistrates) are now only a long hand of the will of the Attorney General of the Republic. This, appointed by the President of the Republic on a proposal from the Government, becomes directly responsible for everything that happens in the Public Prosecutor's Office: for what it orders, for what it should have ordered, for what it allows, for what it does not prevent."
Even in a disaster as terrible as the devastating fire of Pedrógão Grande in 2017, which caused 66 deaths and 253 injuries, destroyed about 500 houses, of which 261 were permanent homes, and 50 businesses, the victims were robbed, most of whom never received the aid supposedly intended for them, including millions of euros in personal donations, and many people even went hungry without access to food.
Portugal only gives the European Union headaches. This time they have decided to open the doors of the Schengen area to any citizen of the CPLP (Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries), but the problem is that it is being done arbitrarily, without rules and without any minimum acceptable requirement other than paying 15 euros, for an almost "free" access to the common EU Schengen area.
As Portugal is a very rich country where the people have a very high quality of life (sarc.), it is possible to be very generous towards the believers of the Muslim religion. That is why the city council of Lisbon will donate 3 million euros of Portuguese money for the construction of a Muslim mosque.
It can be said that a Spanish doctor is worth 285 times more than a Portuguese doctor: Spanish doctor - 234 surgeries in six days | Portuguese doctor - 0.82 surgeries in six days. As the Spanish doctor says "I understand their concern and I know why there are such long waiting lists in Portugal. It's just that for each private operation they charge around two thousand euros". Oops!
Clear discrimination against Spanish citizens, just for the reason that they are not Portuguese citizens. "Ticket hunting" for cars with Spanish registration plates. Crossing the border to work in Portugal can be a nightmare for Spanish doctors working in Portuguese hospitals.
Gonçalo Neves, also known as Tofu, became a paraplegic 12 years ago after a car accident left him in a vegetative state due to a traumatic brain injury. In true Portuguese style, the case dragged on in court for 12 (twelve!) years! Only now have they received compensation! And where is the other compensation for the 12 years of total hell, on all levels, psychological, financial, etc., that they went through…? It's something that of course nobody cares about…
The coordinator of the Lisbon Airport Fiscal Authority and 16 employees took possession of hundreds of "lost and found" items worth thousands of euros. Now you know what probably happened to your laptop, watch, smartphone or any other item you "lost" at the Portuguese airport.
The Public Prosecutor's Office has been BLOCKED by a judge from doing its job, in this case questioning a suspect about possible PSD funding, the PSD being one of the two main central government parties in Portugal.
A gang of Portuguese deputies devising schemes to obtain patrimonial and non-patrimonial benefits at the expense of the public treasury. These scams to steal money from the Portuguese were carried out in almost the entire municipality of Lisbon and beyond, following the party line and the usual "friends".
Job interview for a Portuguese politician: Job interviewer - "Hey, Ivone, just negotiate something for you to manage some shit!". Job candidate - "I don't give a shit, I just want salary!". This is how Portuguese politicians get their jobs, "through very difficult and judicious interviews".
The current finance minister, Fernando Medina, is formally suspected of several crimes, but to date neither the finance minister nor any of the suspected government officials have been charged in at least five cases related to the years in which the socialist led the Lisbon Chamber.
"I don't forget my friends," says a Portuguese politician to another politician, beginning one of the wiretaps that are part of the police investigation. Portuguese nepotism at its best: schemes involving favors, contracts, agreements, jobs and even hired mothers. On the party bench in the Lisbon Municipal Assembly, they serve wages as if they were lunch, of course, to do nothing, not even to show up.
In Portugal it's like this: the law says one thing, but the politicians do another. The law in Portugal is just a piece of paper to blow your nose on. This time, a government minister and the Caixa Geral de Aposentações (CGA), with the greatest audacity, are hiding the updated values of the lifetime monthly subsidy granted to 298 former political office holders.
On the very rare occasions when Portuguese justice does its job, the Portuguese population reacts in the opposite direction, taking the side of the convicted corrupt. At the prison gate, hundreds of cars greet him with shouts of "Long live the president" and honking horns.
In the American telegram entitled "What is wrong with the Portuguese Ministry of Defense", it is stated that Portugal buys weapons as a matter of pride and to overcome inferiority complexes, whether they are useful or not. The most obvious examples are its two submarines and 39 fighter jets, of which only 12 are capable of flying (what a joke).
This news seems like a (bad) joke, as absurd and scabrous it is, but this happened in a court in Portugal, which is the norm. What is even more shocking, if that's possible, is that this sentence was handed down by a female judge.
Certainly, among hundreds or millions of anonymous cases with more or less severity, this article can only present four horrifying stories about the "treatment" that so many people undergo when they need intervention in a hospital in Portugal, from dying in hospital after a simple operation to nasal polyps, and family members still having to wait 20 years for the case to reach the European Court just to receive some justice
The public company Parque Escolar (PE) authorized illegal expenses and payments of (at least) 492 million euros, since they had not been previously remitted and audited by the Court of Auditors (TC), although the public company is obliged to do so. In the end, the sentence was just a fine of 2200 euros!! Do the math!
It is very easy to conclude from this extensive news that Portugal is definitely a madhouse. However, it turns out that this is a problem that starts with the Portuguese mindset, for reasons as diverse as ingrained incompetence, laziness, sloppiness, dishonesty, disorganization, and the fact that the Portuguese generally don't give a damn about each other.
The title says it all, so here we have another "spectacular" stone age ruling from a Portuguese judge, and he even has the nerve to quote the Bible in his ruling, saying "we can read in the Bible that the adulterous woman must be punished by death". So what he meant implicitly was that his sentence was actually kind because what this woman really deserved was to die! I'm stunned!
Portugal is an eternally postponed country. Nothing ever goes the right way in Portugal because the interests of the countless corrupt always come first. Obviously, Portugal is not only not converging with the EU as it should, it is actually diverging, and at an exponential rate.
A lawyer and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of fraud and embezzlement in obtaining subsidies and forging documents. Both are suspected of setting up fraud schemes involving European funds. European money was used to buy high-end cars, including a Ferrari and a McLaren.
Chief of staff of the Secretary of State for Civil Protection, a businessman from Leiria and 19 other defendants, including 11 companies, are the main suspects of fraud in obtaining European subsidies, tax fraud, fraud and money laundering and forgery of documents.
It's hard to write a preamble about this news, it makes my blood boil to see such human decay, and further irrefutable proof that Portugal is indeed a dictatorship, as if there wasn't already enough blatant evidence. This woman, who probably (because in Portugal all evidence is systematically hidden, postponed, erased or literally destroyed) during her entire career systematically dismissed thousands of corruption cases (only of what is known) worth billions of euros that passed through her hands during almost 13 long years of raping democracy...
The fire that devastated 86% of Pinhal de Leiria in October 2017 was criminally caused, for economic gain. The pine forest was trapped with resin pots with pine needles inside, in order to start the flames. The Judicial Police had already concluded that the fire was caused by criminal activity. This is a heinous crime against environmental patrimony.
In Portugal, the promiscuity and corruption between football, political power and judicial power is total and very smelly. In this case, the son of a director of a famous Portuguese football club, did not want to pay the IMI, the property tax, what a bummer, nobody likes to pay, but we all have to pay. No, that's where I am wrong, this entitled gentleman thought he was above other Portuguese citizens... (and in the end he really was)
Fernando Medina, the current Minister of Finance of Portugal, is "suspected" (I say this because, as you know, in Portugal there are no corrupt people, at most there are only suspects) of having conspired, as soon as he assumed the presidency of the Municipality of Lisbon, in a scheme to obtain bribes for the illegal financing of his PS party.
Portugal is probably the EU country with the most tolls per kilometer on highways and national roads, because the Portuguese have to permanently pay (what is already paid) to the mafiosi who orchestrated the ruinous PPP and SCUT agreements, with obscene never-ending margins and profits.
The IPO (Portuguese Institute of Oncology) in Lisbon has spent 10 million euros on several private radiotherapy machinery, but yet only one machine is in operation. Why is that?
In Portugal, political promiscuity and corruption are really from another planet. I've never seen anything like it. Politicians, judges and journalists are often one and the same thing, they all seem to belong to the same family, and often they do.
This gentleman, Paulo Morais, really says it all, here are some shocking sentences from him: "The gentlemen who built this bridge managed, with only 200 million euros, to OWN the tolls of the Vasco da Gama Bridge and the 25 de Abril Bridge for a generation."
Nearly 1 billion euros stolen from the State by doctors, pharmacists, service providers and users through fraud in the National Health Service. Theft of prescriptions and medical vignettes, prescription of drugs with high levels of government reimbursement, and falsification of prescriptions to purchase drugs in multiple pharmacies in a given region.
Only after NINE years, this former banker was finally accused of 65 crimes, namely criminal association, active corruption, document forgery, qualified fraud, money laundering, breach of trust and market manipulation, in which he caused losses of more than 11.8 billion euros (of what is known to the public).
How to be as inhuman and cruel as possible: "They broke the news to her in the coldest and cruelest way. They told her: "Your daughter has something, she is dead! They didn't even call a psychologist. What they did was totally inhumane," criticizes Father Luís Dias.
The lame justification given by the party for these deposits was that they were donations collected at parties and dinners, and that the rush to deposit them on those end-of-year days was explained by the change in the party financing law, of which the CDS officials had just been made aware. The receipts for all these deposits were also issued on dates after the deposits were made. Obviously, all of this makes no sense and is highly compromising.
The title of this article tells a "la palice" truth, but for the Portuguese it is not like that, and that is why this criminal (an understatement) and his countless cronies have led Portugal to bankruptcy, the consequences of which are being felt today and for many decades to come by future generations, condemning the lives of generations to impoverishment...
In Portugal, even dioceses associated with the Church are swindlers! The leaders of this Christian diocese, in order to get the maximum amount of money from Social Security, duplicated users, used the names of people from other social centers, invented users, and even used the names of dead people, referring to them by the interesting name of "UFOs"!
In this scheme, took part several public institutions in Lisbon, law firms, PSP facilities and vehicles, facilities of the National Road Safety Authority (ANSR), the Institute of Mobility and Transport (IMT), the Traffic Division of the PSP of Lisbon, the Financial Management Department of the PSP and the Lisbon Municipal Police… Uff! It's a big list, no doubt!
A case of true horror that could only happen in Portugal. This obstetrician, who had already accumulated many complaints for failing to detect malformations on ultrasound scans, also "missed" the case of a girl who had "inverted legs, no chin, and also serious brain injuries". I'm not an obstetrician, but I don't think even I would miss that!
In Portugal everything is for sale, including obviously "favorable" court decisions. A Public Finance Jurist at the Administrative and Fiscal Court of Porto asked for 'kickbacks' worth thousands of euros, in exchange for letting the State lose court cases.
Not bad, in one afternoon a profit of 5.2 million euros for signing two deeds for the same building. In total and in just over a year, this company had a net profit of 8.9 million euros.
Another totally absurd and criminal sentence from another Portuguese corrupt judge, one that perfectly illustrates why Portuguese justice is such an aberration, a horror movie, a criminal institution above all. It is very clear that this judge is far more concerned about the crook than about his many victims (I wonder why!), going so far as to state something so outrageously insulting to the victims as "not to jeopardize the dignity and livelihood of the accused"...
In this article, the journalist Manuela Moura Guedes, a person of moral integrity like very few others in Portugal (and who paid a high price for it), accused the former Attorneys General of the Republic, Pinto Monteiro and Cândida Almeida, of having "done everything possible to stifle the cases involving former Prime Minister José Sócrates". Which is 100% true!
Banif, a bank in which the Portuguese State intervened with 1100 million euros of taxpayers' money, taking over 99.2% of the bank, paid its manager in Brazil 982.3 thousand euros in "bonuses", more than any other banker in Portugal! It should be noted that this bank had only a residual presence in the Brazilian market.
Revealing and very interesting chronicle about the responsibility of the current Portuguese Prime Minister (and his "friends") for the deeply vegetative, corrupt and miserable situation in which Portuguese society has always found itself. As the author rightly puts it, "Portugal has the stability of cemeteries".
In Portugal, you can also die at the door of a hospital, as if you were an animal, a pig, according to the words of the victim's older brother. When the family arrived at the hospital, they were just told that they were sorry, but at that time there were no doctors in the hospital, and so the man apparently ended up dying there on the asphalt of the road...
The problem is that not even these 3 tiny anti-corruption measures that Portugal has implemented out of 15 recommendations will be fulfilled according to the spirit of what is written, that is, in Portugal they will be completely irrelevant laws, because in Portugal the laws are only used to compose the facade of a democracy and a fake rule of law state. The laws in Portugal are not meant to be taken seriously, and 99% of the time they never are.
The doctor who heads the Lisbon Municipal Council signs not one, but three direct contracts with a member of his party. This member, who seems to have many and very generous friends (with money that is not theirs), also received a salary from another party friend, who was also very generous with other people's money, the Portuguese taxpayers' money.
Corruption in Portugal has another name, it is called "helping your friends". It is perfectly normal in Portugal for large contracts to be awarded "directly" for "consulting" type services without any independent scrutiny...
YES, you read that right! Dragging your wife down the street by her neck is not considered domestic violence in Portugal, because according to a Portuguese judge, it is not a sufficiently cruel and humiliating act to be considered domestic violence.
A 26-year-old young woman dies a week after a simple dental operation. Health care in Portugal is a lottery of tragedy! Situations like this happen with frightening regularity.
A 29-year-old man died at São José Hospital in Lisbon because, as the hospital told the deceased's mother, "it was bad luck that he (chose) to have a brain aneurysm on Friday, because there was no team of neurosurgeons available over the weekend."
Portugal is such an absurdly dysfunctional and dangerous country that even giving birth in a Portuguese hospital can have disastrous consequences for the life of the mother and her family. The end result is that the health consequences are so severe that this mother will never be able to have children...
Yet another story of the Portuguese judiciary zealously protecting criminals from their victims. This time it was a judge who "inadvertently" ignored the law that did not allow a new appeal for the convicted defendant in a case that was about to be "extinguished" because, not surprisingly, that is exactly what happened.
Portugal is not only mocking the EU, but also the OECD and the whole world. As long as Europe and the world continue to deal with Portugal as if it were a legitimate democracy, instead of the dictatorship it actually is, we will all continue to be mocked and stolen by the Portuguese crooks...
I fully agree with what is said in this article, which is much more serious than it may seem at first glance, because obviously this is only the tip of the deep-rooted Portuguese corruption, due to the fact that there is no way to recognize about 99% of the corruption that happens in Portugal, because it is highly systemic and disguised under endless "legal" ways.
In Portugal, nothing goes in your favor, even if you are very lucky not to be defrauded and stolen, or simply decide not to invest in Portugal, which is the only right decision to make, your money, even quietly deposited in Portuguese banks, will shrink a lot.
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