Irish customs seize €40,000 worth of cocaine from Faro passenger’s suitcase
Half a kilo of cocaine - said to be worth at least €40,000 - was found in the lining of a suitcase belonging to a 28-year-old passenger flying in to Cork, Ireland, from Portugal’s Faro airport.
The European Commission said on Friday that it has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether state aid granted by Portugal to Banco Internacional do Funchal S.A (Banif) was compatible with EU state aid rules.
In particular, reports online newspaper The Malta Independent, the European Commission said the final restructuring plan for Banif “should ensure that the bank becomes viable long-term whilst limiting distortions of competition brought about by the state support”.
Authorities in the UK have ruled out foul play in the tragic death of Portuguese student Diogo Moreira.
The young man whose disappearance from his Brighton home sparked a major police search earlier this month was “not the victim of a crime”, reports the Portuguese media.
The skeletal remains of a child found dumped in a suitcase in Southern Australia are “highly unlikely” to be those of Madeleine McCann, say investigators.
Following mounting speculation in the foreign press, South Australian Police Commissioner Grant Stevens has told reporters: “There is absolutely no evidence at this point in time to suggest that the child concerned is Madeleine McCann.
A 19-year-old from Lisbon is seriously injured after falling from a cliff near Praia da Rocha’s well-known “avenue of bars”.
The accident happened in the early hours of Sunday morning, near Outro Bar, which is already known for incidents of this kind, explains Correio da Manhã.
A police manhunt was mounted over the weekend after a young mother left Faro hospital two hours after giving birth to a son she feared would be taken into care by Social Services.
According to friends of 28-year-old Alexandra Patrício she had vowed that she would not let social workers “take another child”.
Beachgoers at Poço da Cruz, Mira, watched in horror yesterday afternoon as a microlight started to drop altitude rapidly and then swerve to avoid them, before crashing onto the sands.
Experienced 48-year-old pilot Fernando Jerónimo, on holiday from France, “died trying to avoid the many people on the beach”, Portuguese media has reported.
Almost exactly a year since the catastrophic collapse of Banco Espírito Santo and his indictment relating to the Monte Branco money-laundering scandal, former BES boss Ricardo Salgado returned to Lisbon’s central court of criminal instruction (TIC) to face a 13-hour grilling.
He left the exhaustive day of questioning as an “arguido” (formal suspect) placed under house arrest with a round-the-clock police guard.
