The anti-corruption prosecutor today asked a sentence of 42 years and a half in prison for the former treasurer of the Popular Party (PP) Luis Barcenas and 110 years for the businessman Francisco Correa, the main leaders of the mega Gürtel corruption scheme linked to the president’s party Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
The request of prosecutors comes after the closing of the first tranche instruction among 1999 and 2005 in the case, being conducted by the National Court Judge Pablo Ruz.
In their paper, the Prosecutor accuses Bárcenas six offenses. bribery, tax fraud, money laundering, forgery, embezzlement and attempted fraud trial
For the other two ex PP treasurers preceding Barcenas, Alvaro Lapuerta and Angel Sanchis, the prosecutor claims 3 and 8 years, respectively.
Meanwhile, Bárcenas wife, Rosalia Iglesias, who had cooperated with the crimes of her husband, receives order for 24 years and one month in prison.
Meanwhile, businessman Francisco Correa, leader of the Gürtel network facing higher demand for prison, 109 years and 10 months in prison.
In addition, the Office considers that both the PP and the former Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato are partakers lucrative plot. In the case of PP, it is considered that the benefit of 328,440 euros, while the resigned Minister Rajoy of 28,468.
The Ruz judge involved in the case to Mato, which is still deputy PP, for have benefited from the money that her ex-husband, Jesús Sepúlveda, former mayor of the suburb of Pozuelo appropriated. To Sepulveda ask 11 years and seven months in prison.
The mega corruption plot Gürtel was uncovered in 2009 by former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon, later disqualified for authorizing wiretaps between the main players in the case and their lawyers.
The investigation found a net payment of fees and illegal financing of the conservative PP Rajoy that began in the period in which the right leader was José María Aznar.
Barcenas, former treasurer and PP senator, who is currently in prison awaiting trial, appeared in the center of the network led by Correa and his “number two”, Pablo Crespo, former secretary general of PP Galicia.
Correa began deploying its business in the 90s, during the Aznar government, and continued doing business with the regional and local administrations of PP in subsequent years.
The Gürtel network “went specializing in organizing events and election campaigns PP, while using her contacts with people with functional responsibilities in the party to get public contracting,” said the judge Ruz.
The Public Prosecutor claims for trial, still no date, the statement as a witness of the former president of the Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, whose Executive awarded more than 300 contracts plot for 8.7 million euros .
As part of the investigation, in mid-January 2013 the judge found that Bárcenas Ruz had accumulated to 22 million euros in Switzerland I -after he acknowledged they were 38 million and finally the police discovered 48 2 million-, and days later the newspaper El Pais published manuscripts documents from a B accounting PP attributed to him.
Following that came to light the “Box B” funding was found PP illegal and payment of money in black to the party leadership, including Mariano Rajoy himself.
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