Directors of Caja Madrid spent 15.5 million cards … – The País.com (Spain)

Directors of Caja Madrid spent 15.5 million cards … – The País.com (Spain)

Miguel Blesa, just off the High Court of Justice of Madrid. / SAMUEL SANCHEZ

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor has submitted a report to the National Court judge Fernando Andreu in communicating that 86 directors and officers of Caja Madrid and Bankia spent a total of 15.5 million euros between 2003 and 2012 without credit card spending limit they were granted outside representation expenses and the statutes of the bank. These credit cards were used to defray expenses for meals, clothing, highways or shopping in department stores, as well as cash withdrawals at ATMs, according to two internal audit reports Bankia where Corruption is based. Extraordinary income not listed as reported to the IRS, according to prosecutors.

It’s Bankia has put itself that these alleged irregularities to the attention of the Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring (FROB). This entity under the Bank of Spain has been the one that has given a referral to Corruption.

The responsibility for the delivery of the cards Ghost company is responsibility under the internal analysis, member of the Steering Committee of Caja Madrid, Barcoj Ildefonso Sánchez, former right hand of the entity Miguel Blesa

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At the time of Caja Madrid, users of ghost cards made expenditures of 15.2 million. The manager was the biggest spender own Barcoj Sánchez, with 484,000 euros between 2003 and 2011 Then comes the Moral former councilor José Antonio Santin, appointed by the United Left, who used the card to pay for goods and services worth 456,500 euros in those years. The president of the box, Miguel Blesa, performed card charges totaling 436,700 euros, as advanced Expansion . The list includes councilors from all parties and trade unions, as the former secretary general of the PP in Madrid, Ricardo Romero de Tejada (212,200 euros), the socialist Antonio Romero (252,000 euros) or Ramon Espinar (178,000 euros), or Francisco Baquero of Workers’ Commissions (266,400 euros).

accounts by cards were entities Caja Madrid, which spent 15.2 million between 2003 and 2011 and Bankia-of which 245,200 were removed euros between 2011 and 2012. At the time that the Madrid box experiencing difficulties that devoted themselves to their integration in Bankia, we have identified 25 people as having these cards.

Of the 245,200 euros spent between 2011 and 2012, 31 % corresponds to withdraw money at ATMs and 17% for travel and travel. In those two years, plus the managers who made the ghost cards were Barcoj Sánchez (90,900 euros), former President of Bankia Rodrigo Rato (54,800 euros) and director Matías Amat. These counselors, after being required by the agency to justify the expenditure and its relationship with bank, has chosen to return what was spent.