BANCO DE PORTUGAL
The PJ is searching for Banco de Portugal, in the universities of Porto and Coimbra, INEM and about 50 other locations, as part of a process related to PRR subsidies in the purchase of computer systems.
The Judicial Police, the Porto Public Prosecution Service and the European Attorney’s Office are carrying out on Tuesday one of the largest operations of the year to combat corruption and fraud in obtaining PRR funds.
According to, more than 300 inspectors search for 50 locations on Tuesday, on the sidelines of Operation Nexus, in an investigation into Corruption in the purchase of 20 million euros in computer material.
The scheme was pretending that there was healthy and fair competition in public purchase contracts of computer supplies. A company, the DecUnifythe format of public hiring in which it is required for the institutions to consult the market for the market and to choose the best of three proposals to be required.
Suspicions of corruption then focus on the relationship of the sector with public institutions, in the Addict of the rules of public contraction for the acquisition of computer systems to certain companies in the exchange of bribes.
As the weekly lists, the visits are Banco de Portugal, the Universities of Porto and Coimbra, the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, INEM, the House of Music, the Águas de Douro and Paiva, the administration of the ports of Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo, ISCTE and Brisa.
It detailed her, early in the morning, is at stake the acquisition of computer systems in a scheme that will have injured the public purse and the European Union in “wide tens of millions of euros.”
As the television channel says, private companies will have accessed PRR fund funds simulating the acquisition of computer systems by certain values, which are, however, artificially inflated with the complicity of service -selling companies.
This also raises suspicions of crimes of document falsification, laundering of capital or qualified tax fraud.
The industrial centers that sell ‘software’ and ‘hardware’ services are located in Greater Lisbon and, according to the television station, have also been looking for PJ.
This is the first time that the European Attorney’s Office has participated in search operations in Portugal.
BANCO DE PORTUGAL IS RETURN TO SEARCH
As Expresso recalls, this is the second time in the period of three months that Banco de Portugal is sought by the Judicial Police.
In early April, the purpose of 17 million euros in purchases equally computer material.
At Banco de Portugal 1.7 million euros were identified in acquisitions made since 2021 to Decunify.
The now suspected of having added the rules in favor of the company is an employee of the same department of information systems and technologies whose director was set up in April.
