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THREE PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED TODY BY THE JUDICIAL POLICE (PJ) ON SUSPICION OF HAVING PARTICIPATED IN A SCHEME TO SUPPLY TAP AND OHER AIRLINES WITH AIRCRAFT PARTS THAT DID NOT MEET THE REQUIEND REQUIREMENTS.
“The ISSUE Concerns The Suscted Supply of Aeronautical Parts and Components To Air Transport Companies and Their respective Mainatenance Units, Accompanied by Certification Documentation That is suscepted to been forge. Requirements demand by the original manufacturers, ”The PJ Said in a statement.
ACCORDING TO SOURCE LINKED TO THE INVESTIGATION, ONE OF THE AFFERED AIRLINES IS TAP.
The Scheme Was Denounced in 2023 by One of the Airline Operators, “Following the Detection, In Its Supply Chains, of Non-Certified Components, Intended to Be Installed in Aircraft Engines, During Mainantenance Action,” indicate The PJ.
The Police Force Adds That, Before Filing the Complaint, The Same Company Communicated to the Competent Authorses in Matters of Air Security, “Thus Contributing to the Mitigation of Any Risks and to the Rapid Intervention of Airport Security Authority at an International Level”.
The Three People Arrested in the “Blind Flight” Operation Are Indicted for the Crimes of Qualified Fraud, Document Forgery, Harmful Administration, Attack on Air Transport Security, Money Laendering, Passive Corruption, Corruption with Little Trade and Qualified Tax Fraud.
In Total, 10 Search Warrants Were Carried Out all in the Lisbon Area, on the South Bank, in Alentejo, in the Algarve and the Interior of the Country.
The suspects will be brought before the court to be questioned by a Judge and Possibly Subject to coercive measures.
