US EditionThe ‘Montoro Case’, Explained with Three Simple Schemes
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A new scandal hits Spanish politics. And this time it does not concern the socialists of Pedro Sanchez: at the heart of the inquiry conducted by the court of Tarragona c'è Cristóbal Montoro, former finance minister in the governments of the People's Party, first with José María Aznar and then with Mariano Rajoy. Montoro was formally accused, along with 27 other people, of serious crimes such as corruption, trafficking of influence, fraud in publ…
The then Minister of Finance, Cristóbal Montoro, introduced in the 2018 Budget Law a fiscal change favorable to industrial gas companies that was identical to the...
The demands of the companies were rejected by the Treasury. According to the investigation, when the firm entered the scene —with payment of hundreds of thousands of euros — those same claims were met
A report from the Mossos provided to the summary indicates that Equipo Económico collected more than 140,000 euros a year from Codere, with Rafael Catalá as director, while key regulations were processed and applied for the online gambling sector favoring this Spanish company
A report prepared by the prosecutor against corruption Carmen García Cerdá from an office of the Judicial Police explained to the judge of the Montoro case the operation that the investigated could carry out to hide "high sums" that they would receive from companies in the industrial gas sector in exchange for influencing the drafting of certain laws.
The future rule would have prevented the direct passage of politics into the lobby given by José Blanco, Antonio Hernando, Alfonso Alonso or Ander Gil, among others. More information: The Civil Guard suspects that Montoro maintained control of Economic Team after selling its shares in 2008
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