Lisbon. Not the Algarve.
The criminal gang under discussion is a criminal gang whose members include the former prominent member of the Policia Judiciaria, Paulo Pereira Cristóvão ... as well as serving officers ... was active in Portugal.
Perhaps a bit naive to imagine they might not have had contacts and wide ranging enterprises throughout Portugal and beyond.
I doubt the criminality was confined to a particular region ... but that is a matter for the Portuguese authorities.
I can see why there are those who prefer that Paulo Pereira Cristóvão should just vanish into obscurity now that he has become such an embarrassment.
However that was not always the case, at one time he was a celebrated persona mainly due to the much admired, in some quarters, book he wrote about Madeleine McCann. Given what we now know of the criminal nature of the man it perhaps casts a totally different light on the day job and his media career.
"The Internet and missing children - challenges for parents and children" is the title of the next lecture in Vila Real de Santo Antonio. It will be given by Paulo Pereira Cristovao and Goncalo Amaral.
On this occasion, Paulo Pereira Cristovao will also present his latest book, "They took me," inspired by real cases of missing children.
Original Source: O ALGARVE: TUESDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2010
Author: Susan de Sousa
Nov 16, 2010
http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/press/43nov10/O_ALGARVE_16_11-10.htm