Miguel Pinto Luz is targeted in the PJ searches in the Cascais Chamber

There are more than 200 inspectors involved in this large scale operation. At issue are suspected crimes of corruption in the acquisition of goods and services for State bodies.

The PSD parliamentary leader, in response to suspicions involving minister Miguel Pinto Luz, stated that the investigation must be brought to an end.

The editor of CNN Portugal's Society, Henrique Machado, analyzes Carlos Carreiras's statements regarding the PJ investigation into the Cascais municipality.

The searches aimed at two urban planning processes, one related to a hotel, the other to a hospital. Suspects were not mentioned, but in both cases Carlos Carreiras admits the intervention of the former vice-president

The current Minister of Infrastructure is one of those targeted in a complaint about the sale of municipal land for the construction of a Hilton hotel.

Speaking to Lusa, the Mayor of Cascais, Carlos Carreiras, confirmed the searches of the Judicial Police (PJ) at the local authority headquarters this morning. The searches involved two urban planning processes, one related to a hotel, the other to a hospital, and about which he said that all the “legal prerogatives” to which the municipality is obliged had been fulfilled, and “all explanations were provided to the members of the PJ” who were in …