22-06-2009, 10:32 AM
ONE of the first officers at the scene the night Madeleine McCann![[Image: mag-glass_10x10.gif]](http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/mag-glass_10x10.gif)
disappeared had £100,000 deposited in bank accounts soon after, it was claimed.
The policeman is being investigated by anti-corruption detectives, Portuguese TV station TVI reported.
National Republican Guard (GNR) officers searched the apartment and area around the McCanns’ holiday flat in Praia da Luz before the investigation was taken over by the Judicial Police.
The GNR was later criticised for destroying potential clues by trampling through the crime scene, contaminating the area.
The television station, which did not name the corporal under investigation, said several payments were made into two accounts in the officer’s name “shortly after Maddie’s disappearance”.
The TV channel said the policeman denied knowing anything about the money and suggested his name may have been used without his know-ledge to open the accounts.
Police sources said he is known as an honest officer.
Costa Lima, spokesman for the GNR, told newspaper 24 Horas: “We have not opened any investigation into any officer involved in the Maddie case, nor do we have knowledge of any other body investigating anyone.”
Madeleine, now six, disappeared while on a family holiday on the Algarve.
Her parents Gerry and Kate, both 41, doctors from Rothley, Leics, have launched a campaign to find her.
disappeared had £100,000 deposited in bank accounts soon after, it was claimed.The policeman is being investigated by anti-corruption detectives, Portuguese TV station TVI reported.
National Republican Guard (GNR) officers searched the apartment and area around the McCanns’ holiday flat in Praia da Luz before the investigation was taken over by the Judicial Police.
The GNR was later criticised for destroying potential clues by trampling through the crime scene, contaminating the area.
The television station, which did not name the corporal under investigation, said several payments were made into two accounts in the officer’s name “shortly after Maddie’s disappearance”.
The TV channel said the policeman denied knowing anything about the money and suggested his name may have been used without his know-ledge to open the accounts.
Police sources said he is known as an honest officer.
Costa Lima, spokesman for the GNR, told newspaper 24 Horas: “We have not opened any investigation into any officer involved in the Maddie case, nor do we have knowledge of any other body investigating anyone.”
Madeleine, now six, disappeared while on a family holiday on the Algarve.
Her parents Gerry and Kate, both 41, doctors from Rothley, Leics, have launched a campaign to find her.
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