The Polícia Judiciária (PJ) has arrested two individuals accused of using 27 fake identities to establish 19 commercial companies as part of a scheme to launder approximately five million euros.
The suspects face charges including criminal association, document forgery, computer fraud, money laundering, and tax fraud.
The police explained in a statement that the suspects’ modus operandi involved using various forged identities to create “front” companies, which were necessary to open bank accounts both in the names of these false identities and the companies themselves.
These bank accounts were then used to circulate funds derived from fraud and computer crime.
The two individuals have appeared for their initial judicial questioning at the Tribunal de Instrução Criminal in Porto, where they were placed in pre-trial detention.
