"The work will resume next Monday, at 09:30", clarified Filipe Câmara, mentioning that the bailiffs went on strike today for overtime hours. The four suspects were arrested on Tuesday, within the scope of the so-called "Operation Rota do Viajante II", which took place in Madeira and in the Lisbon region, and began to be heard on Thursday at the Tribunal da Comarca da Madeira, in Funchal. This is a process of alleged fraud against the State in the social mobility subsidy, in which they are indicted for criminal association, aggravated fraud, falsification of documents and money laundering. According to the Public Ministry (MP), the inquiry already had eleven defendants, one of them in preventive detention, and that the investigation continued under the direction of the MP of the Investigation and Criminal Action Department (DIAP) of Loures, with the assistance of the Judicial Police (PJ). In turn, the PJ announced that it arrested five people on Tuesday, aged between 23 and 55, and carried out 71 searches in an operation focused on the Autonomous Region of Madeira and the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, which targeted fraud against the State through the social mobility subsidy, in an amount exceeding half a million euros. According to the PJ, the domiciliary and non-domiciliary searches took place in Lisbon, Loures and Madeira, especially in the municipalities of Funchal, Santa Cruz and Câmara de Lobos, and constituted a second initiative in Operation Rota do Viajante, whose investigation is in charge of the Department of Investigation and Criminal Action (DIAP) of Loures. The PJ also clarifies that the plan of these elements involved the "recruitment of residents" of Madeira, "who were provided with documents necessary to collect this subsidy and previously falsified, such as air tickets, tickets and reservations, invoices and receipts". Then, these people were accompanied by elements of the criminal network and presented the documentation at CTT stations on the mainland to receive the refund from the State. "The criminal association now dismantled showed high levels of organization, with different hierarchical levels, being composed of counterfeiters, recruiters and/or recruiters and controllers", said the Judiciary. For this operation, elements of the National Unit for Combating Corruption and the Criminal Investigation Department of Madeira were mobilized, and the PJ also had the support of the Portuguese Air Force in terms of logistics and transportation of defendants and evidence seized. Read Also: Rota do Viajante II. Interrogation of detainees resumed on Friday (Portuguese version)