A military plane ‘Hércules C-130’, from the Portuguese Air Force, landed mid-morning this Monday at Madeira International Airport, carrying around fifty inspectors from the Judiciary Police (PJ) traveling to Madeira to, as DIÁRIO found, carrying out steps within the scope of a judicial process taking place under the supervision of the Central Department of Investigation and Criminal Action (DCIAP).
Passengers who disembarked were directly taken to a bus, chartered for that purpose, which traveled to the runway to facilitate all logistics. Meanwhile, the military plane has already taken off from the runway at Madeira International Airport – Cristiano Ronaldo.
For now, further details are unknown regarding the scope of this judicial operation, as well as whether it will involve home and non-home searches of public institutions or companies in the Autonomous Region of Madeira.
However, the movement is identical to that which took place on January 24th, when a mega-operation by the PJ took place under the supervision of the DCIAP, to investigate the case of alleged corruption in Madeira, which resulted in three defendants, and in which the military plane was committed at the request of the PJ to facilitate the assembly of the human and logistical device.
In this operation that took place across the country, 2 Criminal Investigation Judges, 6 Magistrates from the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the DCIAP and 6 members of the Technical Advisory Center (NAT) of the Attorney General’s Office, as well as 270 criminal investigators and experts from the PJ, participated in this operation. who carried out 130 home and non-home searches.