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Portugal’s New Anti-Corruption Tool: Flagged €110B in Suspicious Contracts
(theportugalpost.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2026
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Corruption is so entrenched in Portugal that unlike pretty much anywhere in the World, Libel is an actual CRIME prosecuted by the local version of the Public Prosecution Office, which in practice means that no actual damage has to be proven (the legislation literally talks about "protecting the honor" of the person targetted by the libelous comments) and only people with the proper political connections to get the Public Prosecution Office to act (i.e. politicians and rich people) get to be "protected" by this Law.
Oh, and in a country infamous by an extremelly slow Court system, they in practice expedite Libel cases where politicians are the "victim".
So even descriptions of systems to detect Corruption have to be very carefully worded so as to not even imply that anything caught by them is actually Corruption.
I'm Portuguese and, having also lived elsewhere in Europe, firmly believe that in the domains of Politics and Justice, Portugal is basically a chunk of South America that happens to be in Europe. If it wasn't for the EU - mainly the laws and pressure coming via it, many ultimatelly originating in places like Northern Europe - the country would be an even bigger shit show.