The Judiciary Police (PJ) detained a man strongly indicated for the crimes of forgery of documents and willful insolvency, who changed his name to avoid liability for debts of six million euros.
The detainee was a “managing partner of a company, owner of several commercial establishments in the textile, footwear, appliances and furniture sectors, with stores in Faro, Lisbon, Portimão and Olhão” and was declared insolvent “for presenting debts that he could not settle in the amount approximately six million euros, essentially to banking institutions, to the State, but also to suppliers and employees ”, stated the PJ in a statement.
The same source stressed that the detainee is 60 years old, currently has no professional activity and, “after bankruptcy was decreed in 2013, he made part of his assets disappear, damaging the creditors” and changed his name and identity “to exempt from criminal and civil responsibilities ”.
After being heard in court at the first judicial interrogation, the detainee was subject to the “mandatory delivery of the passport and three-weekly presentation to the criminal police body in his area of residence” as coercive measures, the PJ also said.
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