Friday, January 29, 2016

Sprinkled “to the neck”: All about corruption in Spain – RT in Spanish – International News

In the early hours of Tuesday the Spanish Civil Guard arrested 24 people and made records in a wide operating corruption in Valencia. Among those arrested are Alfonso Rus, president of the Valencian Council and the Popular Party in Valencia; Maximum Caturla, former vice president of the council; Emilio Llopis, former chief of staff Rus during his tenure on the council and María José Alcón, former councilmen of the City of Valencia.

The raid in Valencia has shown that “the PP is corruption to the ears “the word of the spokesman of the PSOE, Antonio Hernando, adding that” in other communities is up to his neck, “according to the bulletin.

The largest corruption in the PP

Case Gürtel : Under the same under investigation since 2009 a web of corruption in the PP mainly in Madrid, Galicia and Valencia. It is alleged bribery political party with money and gifts in exchange for awards to companies. In the case they include 187 defendants, 74 of them are politicians. The PP Luis Barcenas extesorero listed as accused

Operation Punic . Includes tax offenses, money, laundering embezzlement by a group of officials involved in the PP and operated mainly Madrid, Murcia, León and Valencia. Francisco Granados, the Government of the Community of Madrid, is one of the main accused

bárcenas affair . Erupted following the publication in the press of an alleged parallel accounting of PP, according to which the party received large donations from companies and several senior training bonuses were paid. Luis Barcenas aimed at black money bonuses to senior party officials. The former Interior Minister, Angel Acebes, was the last accused by Judge Ruz this case

Operation Pokemon . Investigates a series of episodes of corruption in various administrations of Galicia, Asturias and Catalonia where officials allegedly became public contracts and concessions on the basis of bribes. Judge the case, Pilar Lara has indicted ten people, including the ex-Mayors to Santiago de Compostela Ourense Boqueixón and

Case Noos . For his participation in He is accused of the king’s youngest daughter, Cristina de Borbon, and her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin. It is more than six million allegedly embezzled five years of research, 76,000 pages of summary and 18 defendants. This case has been a blow to the image of the Spanish monarchy and even caused Felipe VI withdraw the title of Duchess of Palma her sister

case Palma Arena :.: He began in 2008 to start research began overrun in building the Palma Arena, enrichment president of the Balearic Government Jaume Matas (PP) and the alleged illegal party funding. In this case resulted, among others, the plot of the case Nóos

The biggest corruption cases in the PSOE

Case of the ERE :. Is investigated the alleged diversion of public funds by the Socialist Party. Under the case alleged irregularities in the formalization of the record of employment regulation, embezzlement and fraudulent sale of land, with which they were defrauded about 130 million euros, reviews The Huffington Post are investigated. There are more than 170 suspects, including several charges exaltos Andalusian government, including the socialist former Minister Magdalena Alvarez.

Operation Astapa : It is a web of corruption based in Estepona (Málaga) around the Socialist mayor Antonio Barrientos. It is alleged kickbacks that went to a box B in exchange for urban benefits. Dozens of officials have been implicated in the case.

Operation Champion : elites affected the PSOE, and the mayor of Vigo and the former Minister Abel Caballero. We investigate their involvement in the distribution of most of the works of Plan E (also known as Zapatero Plan) in the town named group ‘villa PSOE’.



Corruption and the future government

However, “corruption cases do not have to difficult negotiations” to form a government. So, says the president of the Spanish Government Mariano Rajoy functions. The future of political life remains uncertain given disagreements at the time of forming a coalition.

The PP leader, who was forced to react to the anti-corruption macrorredada held in Valencia, said that this episode “proves that corruption will not go unpunished”, adding:.. “No one involved in a corruption case is no section of the party”

“This has made us much damage we have learned and in the future will not occur again, “Rajoy said in an interview with Telecinco, apparently a series of corruption cases related to his party reference.

” The PP starts getting more people defending on the bench to work “

” The corrupt frames are based on tradition. It is arresting the corrupt, those who rarely corrupt, “says Manuel Jabois in an opinion piece published in ‘The Country’.

“What cases have been played with similar patterns in the rest of Spain helps lower the debate almost always the same party.. The PP with the same material. And with a brick type money very special: the public, “says referring to the many cases of corruption that have punctuated the match Rajoy

The PP, which aims both to govern believed.” His obstacle is the lack of parliamentary support “while the fact is that” start having more people defending the bench to work on the governments, ‘says the author.

sharp drop in transparency

This Wednesday the NGO Transparency International (TI) has released the report of Perception Index Corruption 2015, revealing that last year Spain has not improved in terms of transparency. Spain now stands at the 36th position with a total of 168 countries.

With 58 points earned (in 2014 he won 59 points) the country is adjacent to Macedonia, Libya, Hungary and Turkey. The study reflects the advice of experts from the private sector on this trait that characterizes these countries as “where corruption is growing while reducing the space for civil society and democracy,” reports El Pais.

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