Between January and June of this year, the National Republican Guard registered 30 reports of scams by simulation of traffic accidents throughout the national territory. These crimes consist of fraudulent schemes where traffic accidents are simulated to deceive insurers or victims.
Bragança stands out as the only district among the 18 districts of mainland Portugal that did not record any report of this type of crime during the first semester of the year. This situation places the Minho district in an exclusive position in the national landscape.
The GNR is the police force responsible for registering and monitoring these reports, which generally involve attempts at fraud through staged traffic accidents. The data now revealed shows the unequal distribution of this type of crime throughout the country.
The absence of registered cases in Bragança contrasts with the existence of 30 reports at the national level, suggesting that this modality of scam has a higher incidence in other regions of the country, although the article does not specify which districts are most affected.
