Head of the arrival accused of prostitution of minors

You will have paid to have sex with a 15 -year -old boy. Now you can face up to 5 years in prison.

Nuno Pardal Ribeiro He is 51 years old and is deputy of the Municipal Assembly of Lisbon, vice president of the Lisbon District of arriva and national counselor. He is narrowly a deputy at the Assembly of the Republic – it was the tenth of the list by Lisbon.

According to the newspaper, it is now accused of Two crimes of prostitution of minors aggravated.

Pardal Ribeiro met a teenager on the Grindr meetings social network. They met in person at a train station on July 11, 2023, and the politician took the car to a pine forest. According to the prosecutor’s accusation to which the Express had access, the district leader He asked the boy what old age he was, to which he answered “15”.

The MP’s prosecutor stated that the teenager “was 15 years old and was sexually inexperienced.”

They will have practiced “mutual” oral sex, and at the end of the meeting the municipal deputy sent a teenager a Code for survey of 20 eurosby Mbway.

The legal age of consent is 16 years, but when there is money involved is 18 years. The arrival of the arrival will also have asked “nudes” from the teenager and tried to meet again with him, which only did not happen by the will of the minor.

The MP accuses the defendant to have acted “with the purpose of, to satisfy his libidinous instincts, to practice with the assistant the sexual acts described” in exchange for “money”.

Contacted by the same newspaper, Pardal Ribeiro does not negate having found himself with the minor, but guarantees to have known “the person in question in a app of meetings for over 18 ”.

Now you can face up to 3 years in prison. According to, “who, being greater, practicing sexual act of embossing with less between 14 and 18 years, by payment or other counterpart, is punished with prison up to 3 years.” However, as the accusation is aggravated, the prison sentence can extend to 5 years.

Pardal Ribeiro will then have to try to prove that he did not know that the young man was smaller. But the task will be difficult, since, in addition to the adolescent’s statements, they also serve as proof the messages exchanged between the two on the social network and even photographs.

In addition to politics, the arrival of the arrival was a professional knight, and is president of the National Association of Bulls and president of the Portuguese bullfighter Assistance Fund. He is also CEO of an event and communication agency.

Regional Deputy driving with 2.25 g/l of alcohol in the blood

This Sunday, February 2, José Paulo SousaDeputy of arrives at the Regional Assembly of the Azores, was stopped by a PSP Stop operation during the dawn.

According to the newspaper, the deputy Azorean (also region of the deputy of the arrival that stole bags at airports,) was caught with a percentage of 2.25 g/l of alcohol in the blood, which constitutes a crime.

It is prohibited to drive with an alcohol rate in the blood equal to or greater than 0.5 g/l, and an alcohol level equal to or greater than 1.2 g/l is already considered a crime and the driving license can be seized during 3 months to 3 years. This crime is still punished with prison sentence up to 1 year or with a fine up to 120 days.

“I come to express clearly and sincerely my deep regret for the serious error I made […] It was an irrational choice, of which I am ashamed, ”said the regional deputy on Facebook.

A Fome-Açores source told the Azorean newspaper that the matter will be discussed meeting of the parliamentary group, to be held next Monday.