Antonio Soares
Two lawyers, among them an ex-director of Social Security of Braga, are among the eight detainees of a large operation of the judicial police in Braga, on suspicion of tax fraud. One of the lawyers was taken after the searches.
One of the detainees is the lawyer Fernando Costa Salgado, the former head of the delegation of Braga of the Institute of Financial Management of Social Security, university professor and former head of the Municipal PS de Famalicão. Also detained in the operation was the attorney for Ernesto Salgado.
The search in the office of Coast Salt ended about 16 hours, with the lawyer to leave the building in a car of the Judicial Police.
On Monday morning, the PJ has about a hundred searches, at various points of the country, including the islands, in an investigation that points to a fraud on the order of 15 million euros.
There is suspicion of crimes of criminal association, tax fraud qualified fraud tax against Social Security fraud qualified, insolvency, misconduct, corruption, and money laundering.
“Until this moment we have already calculated the losses to the State in VAT, tax and Social Security contributions, estimated at over 15 million euros,” said a statement from PJ.
THE PJ has confirmed that have been met eight arrest warrants in an operation that involves elements of the Judicial Police of the Boards of the North and Centre of the departments of Funchal, Leiria and Vila Real, in addition to the revenue Authority and Finance.
The detainees are seven men and one woman, including two lawyers, three accountants, two businessmen and an employee of the office. Were still constituted charged about 20 persons, natural and legal.
Fernando Costa, the Salt had already been sentenced in 2011 to four years in prison effective, for the crime of embezzlement, diversion of 187 thousand euros, that would be destined to the payment of a debt owed to Social Security. This process is still in appeal in the Constitutional Court.
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