Not really a surprise coming from populists left and right. But it was surprisingly nasty coming from the employee of a company in the rentseeking business trying to sell its services 
Consider whether the following scenario constitutes immigration fraud: Suppose I owned a tiny shop in Martim Moniz back in 2023 (with no need for any employee other than myself), and my second cousin in Bangladesh wanted to move to Portugal through MI. So we came to an agreement that his mother would pay my mother the equivalent of EUR1500 per month back in Bangladesh, and I would “hire” him for EUR1000 in Portugal: (1) with a signed employment contract, (2) real money is paid to cousin and social security, and (3) cousin never does any actual work in my shop.
So why isn’t below tax fraud? Consideration is paid (100k), company would not have agreed to hire me / put me on the Board otherwise, and Portugal loses tax revenue.