An unemployed Portuguese man has had a terrible time since Social Security mistakenly credited his bank account with €788,000. The amount saw PJ police contacted by the bank (on suspicions that money-laundering was underway) – and the man has been forced to hire a lawyer to represent him in the ensuing ‘criminal investigation’. As the matter is “covered by secrecy of justice”, the sum cannot be returned to Social Security – and the man has been left without the funds he was hoping for to pay his rent…
