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EXPLAINED: Fresh corruption scandal hits Spain's opposition party
Spain’s Popular Party has been harnessing accusations of corruption in Pedro Sánchez's government to gain support, but they’ve now also been hit by scandal over the alleged trafficking of influences of their former Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro.
The PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has asked to investigate "until the end" the alleged plot in which the former Minister of Finance Cristóbal Montoro is being investigated, three days after the outbreak of this case, which the PSOE has described as " Fiscal Kitchen." "There can be no two poles for corruption. It affects anyone who affects," says Feijóo in an interview published this Sunday in La Voz de Galicia, in which he points out that he …
PSOE's Economic Policy Secretary, Enma López, has accused the PP of acting with absolute warmth in the face of the "Montoro case."
On November 19, 2017, the Mossos d’Esquadra searched the headquarters of the gas company Messer Ibérica de Gases in the tarraconeses of Vila-Seca and El Morell. The agents sought evidence of an alleged crime against the territory in an investigation initiated that year.
The modus operandi is so blatant and unpunished that it makes us foresee that this is only the tip of the iceberg. Companies pay bribes and custom laws are drafted to pay less taxes and that the legislation is favorable to them.For Aznar and the structural golfing “Mafia or democracy.” That was the slogan of the PP demonstration with which he tried to overthrow the government for the corruption case of Santos Cerdán and José Luis Ábalos. It was …
The "Montoro case" with the accusation to the former Minister of Finance and his law firm of influence trafficking and privileged treatment of gas and energy companies is having a moderate international impact, but some such as The Guardian, Les Echos or Euronews have highlighted it. It is emphasized that Cristóbal Montoro was in charge of carrying out the command during the era of drastic austerity that Spain lived after the crisis of 2009 duri…
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