Alentejo: PJ arrested two businessmen, a Portuguese and a Spanish, for fraud with EU funds.
According to the website of the Journal News (JN) the Judicial Police (PJ) two businessmen arrested for fraud with EU funds, in the field of alternative energy. The searches took place in Alentejo, where one of the individuals was arrested.
One of those involved is the Lena Group manager and was arrested, Tuesday, by the Judicial Police, suspected of being involved in a fraud 15 million euros of EU funds, an operation where he was also detained a Spanish businessman, I knew JN.
The two arrested, that they are not associated in the practice of crime, They will be involved in a fraud on the application of EU funds for equipment construction for alternative energy. In practice, the millions of the European Union arrived undertakings to which the detainees are linked, following the usual applications for this purpose, but they have never been applied to the purpose for which they were intended.
Searches, num total de cerca de 20, They are still ongoing, with higher incidence in areas of Leiria, Lisbon and Alentejo. The arrests took place in the Alentejo and Leiria and suspicions about the non-application of funds passed on at least ten companies. The Spanish businessman also has activity in Spain, but investigations involving, for now, only the activity in Portugal. None of the detainees have joined and were also made defendants a yet unknown number of suspects.
A PJ em comunicado clarified that “research focuses on the activity performed by Portuguese and Spanish companies, who obtained, fraudulently, grants large amounts”.
