Asked 42 years in prison for a former treasurer of PP – La Gaceta Tucumán

Asked 42 years in prison for a former treasurer of PP – La Gaceta Tucumán

MADRID, España.- The Anticorruption Prosecutor of Spain yesterday asked 42 and a half years in prison for Luis Barcenas , former treasurer of the Popular Party (PP), which the Spanish president belongs, Mariano Rajoy . The Justice presumably is involved in Barcenas, one of the largest bribery and corruption scandals in the history of Spain, which was uncovered in 2009, amid economic and financial crisis “Gürtel case.”

The crimes he is accused Bárcenas are tax fraud, bribery, money laundering, forgery, embezzlement and attempted procedural fraud.

The resonant case splashes the party of Spanish president for five years when he began the judicial investigation in the High Court. In November last year, the then Minister of Health, Ana Mato , resigned when Justice accused of having profited from the illegal business of her husband, one of 42 defendants. Today continues as a member.

Barcenas, who had 48 million euros in accounts in Switzerland, is a year and a half in custody under judicial investigation. In the last year he accused his former party financed illegally, which led the investigating judge, Pablo Ruz , to open another reason to investigate the existence of an alleged “box” surrounding the president Rajoy .

The judge relied on reports of anti-corruption prosecutor, according to which between 1999 and 2009 there was a plot organized by which officials were paid in exchange for business favors.

Another defendant

For the alleged leader of the “Gürtel case”, the employer Francisco Correa , the prosecution asked for 110 years in prison. According to the statement, the business environment specialized in organizing campaign the PP while, as argued the trial judge, using her contacts with party officials for government contracts in Spanish municipalities by paying consideration.

In addition, the Anticorruption Prosecutor requested the PP Spain more than 328,000 euros in liability for having profited from the profits of the plot in the communities of Pozuelo and Majadahonda, in the region of Madrid. Meanwhile, for the former Minister of Health, Justice claimed around 28,500 euros, and accused of having profited gifts he did to her then husband when he served as mayor in Pozuelo. (DPA-Reuters)