Lisbon,Oct 2, 2025 (Lusa) - Portugal's criminal investigation police agency, PJ, arrested two individuals at Lisbon airports, suspected of crimes including criminal association, qualified fraud, document forgery, and money laundering, committed as part of the "CEO Fraud" scheme and with proceeds of approximately €850,000.

In a statement released today, the PJ said that the arrests on Wednesday of a man and a woman, aged 30 and 28, both foreigners, followed an arrest warrant issued by the Matosinhos Criminal Investigation and Action Department (DIAP).

"Through the scheme commonly known as “CEO Fraud”, the suspects, who are foreign nationals, acted as part of a wider organisation, which included two others previously arrested in November 2024, as part of an investigation that had been going on for several months at the PJ," the force explained.

The police also said that "documents and computer systems" used to commit the offences had been seized.

"The information collected and consolidated allow us to conclude that the suspects are operatives of a transnational criminal organisation which, through the bank accounts opened in the name of the false individual identities and companies they created, circulated funds of illicit origin, originating from different crimes, namely computer-related or committed by computer-related means," added the Polícia Judiciária in the statement.

The suspects will be brought before the Court of Criminal Investigation in Matosinhos for questioning, and coercive measures will be applied.

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