The ‘luxurious’ house arrests of Armando Pereira and Hernâni Vaz Antunes
The main defendants of Operation Picoas will await trial under house arrest. So far, the GNR does not know how surveillance will be carried out on Armando Pereira and Hernâni Vaz Antunes. The largest mansion in the north of the country In the case of Armando Pereira, founder of Altice, house arrest will be served […]
MP asks for preventive custody for Hernani Vaz Antunes and bail of 10 million for Armando Pereira
The Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) requested preventive detention for the defendant Hernâni Vaz Antunes, considered the “right-hand man” of Altice co-founder Armando Pereira, revealed to Lusa a source linked to the process. According to the same source, in relation to Altice co-founder Armando Pereira, the MP asked the investigating judge Carlos Alexandre to apply house […]
MP requests pre-trial detention for Armando Pereira and Hernâni Vaz Antunes
Preventive detention is what the MP proposes for Armando Pereira, co-founder of Altice, and his friend and businessman Hernâni Vaz Antunes, the two main suspects of having practiced a monumental scam to the French telecommunications multinational. Rosário Teixeira argues in her plea that there is strong evidence of passive and active corruption in the private […]
Operation Picoas: Hernâni Vaz Antunes returns to Campus de Justiça to close interrogations
The coercive measures of the four detainees should be known this week, after several days in custody and under interrogation. The investigation into the deals involving Altice concluded that the state was harmed by more than €100 million. Hernâni Vaz Antunes returns this Monday to the Campus of Justice to be heard by Judge Carlos […]
Farewell to Carlos Alexandre in Ticão: coercive measures in the Altice case will be the last decision
The Ticão judge was in charge of the most media cases, such as BES/GES, BPN, Furacão, Monte Branco, Vistos Gold, Marquês, EDP and now Operation Picoas, which involves the co-founder of Altice. ankers, senior figures in the Portuguese state and businessmen have never intimidated him. Carlos Alexandre, 62, a judge at the Central Criminal Investigation […]
Armando Pereira didn’t want family exposure, but daughter turned out to be one of the “queens of dance” in the US and bought floor for 70 million
Married to Gaëlle Pereira, Yossi Benchetrit has worked in several geographies of Altice. He has now been suspended. Who is the couple who bought an apartment in New York for 70 million? On New York’s so-called billionaires’ row, a skyscraper that is taller than One World Trade Center and the Empire State Building (if you […]
Operation Picoas: coercive measures to be known next week
The interrogation of Armando Pereira, co-founder of Altice and defendant in the Picoas case, has ended. Hernâni Vaz Antunes began to be heard this afternoon. During the afternoon of Thursday, Hernâni Vaz Antunes began to be heard, who is said to have secured billing contracts of 660 million euros with Altice, through several companies. The […]
Armando Pereira’s son-in-law has been placed on leave
The son-in-law of Altice group co-founder Armando Pereira, Yossi Benchetrit, responsible for Altice USA’s purchasing and real estate area, is on leave, an official source from the North American subsidiary confirmed to Lusa today. “In response to the circumstances in Portugal, we immediately initiated an internal investigation,” said an official source from Altice USA, when […]
Armando Pereira’s defense says MP’s indictment “is a set of presumptions”
The defense of Altice co-founder Armando Pereira today criticized the indictment of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) in the process called ‘Operation Picoas’, stressing that it is based on a “set of presumptions” and reiterating the innocence of the businessman. “[Not guilty?] Completely, I have no doubt about that. The existing indictment is not an […]
Altice co-founder indicted on 11 counts of corruption and money laundering
Altice co-founder Armando Pereira is indicted for a total of 11 crimes of active and passive corruption, money laundering and forgery in the ‘Operation Picoas’ process, the defense confirmed today as he left the court. Speaking to journalists, lawyer Manuel Magalhães e Silva confirmed that Armando Pereira is suspected of active and passive corruption in […]