In two years, over 80% of investigated cybercrimes ended up archived. A report from the Public Prosecutor’s Office states that there are few charges and the percentage that goes to trial is insignificant.
A review report carried out by the Attorney General’s Office on the fight against priority investigation crimes between 2023 and 2025 reveals that cybercrime, considered by the Public Ministry as an expanding crime, has very low prosecution rates and a high percentage of filings.
The report, to which the had access, concludes that in these two years 58 thousand investigations into cyber crimes were opened. About 46,000 were completed, but only nearly 2,000 were completed.They filed an indictment, the lowest rate among the different types of priority investigation crimes: 81% of investigations ended in archiving.
Obtaining proof is the main difficulty
With regard to other priority investigation inquiries, such as murders, domestic violence, corruption or drug and human trafficking, the prosecution rate was 12.8% – that is, triple that recorded in cybercrime.
According to Público, one of the biggest difficulties in cybercrime is obtaining evidence, without which there can be no prosecution.
The Public Ministry’s report comes at a time when criminal policy for the next two years is being discussed in Parliament.
