Saturday, October 4, 2014
Miguel Blesa, president of Caja Madrid.
The scandal Black Cards (as they were known in the state) of Caja Madrid has given rise to the Treasury to investigate whether it is a common practice in large companies its directors and managers have at their disposal a number of advantages for spend without control. This new corruption case brought yesterday a new series of resignations that has engulfed all political parties and trade unions. The seven former directors who have resigned over 850,000 million euros were spent.
The research opens the Ministry of Finance will focus on companies listed on the Ibex 35 firms, although other companies large will expand size. It is whether the opaque practice of old Madrid box is widespread and there are expenses that are not declared.
TO FINANCE / The decision of the ministry that directs Cristobal Montoro was known about the same time that the resignation of José María Buenaventura, chief of staff to Secretary of State for Finance, Miguel Ferre. Buenaventura, who is inspector of state finances since 1999, served on the board of Caja Madrid at the proposal of the PP during the four years he was chief of staff of the Minister of Finance of the Government of the Community of Madrid.
This was one of the five resignations that occurred last Thursday after the resignation of former president of the Caja Madrid Foundation, Carmen Cafranga, and cessation CEO Economic Community of Madrid, Pablo Bees.
PP sources announced last night that an internal investigation open to all former directors who are members. The decision came after a day of warmth in the parliamentary spokesman Antonio Alonso said ‘responsibilities are cleared in court, “reports Patricia Martin.
From the Government’s conviction was more emphatic. Luis de Guindos, economy minister, said it is the first “to which upsets your stomach” for these practices in an entity that has received some 23,000 million euros in state aid.
The member the executive committee of the Madrid Socialist Party (PSM), Ángel Gómez del Pulgar, who was vocal in Caja Madrid, resigned yesterday, while the PSOE opened 16 files to many other activists who were directors of the entity. Those affected must submit documentation being required before a case the rules of PSOE described as very serious. Its leader Pedro Sánchez will be warned that “strong” and “intransigent” with these practices.
Who will face the process with all documentation in hand is Virgilio Zapatero, who was vice president of the box with Rodrigo Rato . The former Minister of Parliamentary Relations with Felipe González and rector of the University of Alcalá de Henares, returned between May and June 2012 about 28,000 euros of expenditure incurred with the card than it had evidence, confirmed himself to this newspaper. Zapatero waived any remuneration from the entity given its financial situation, which soon after was seized by the state. The former minister is willing to return what is in the documentation as having the prosecution Anticorrución figure at a cost of 36,000 euros.
Similar internal investigation process have opened the CCOO and UGT trade unions. Yesterday the UGT leader resigned Madrid, José Ricardo Martinez and former Secretary General of CCOO in the community, Rodolfo Benito, who was currently secretary of the union studies and president of the Foundation on May Day.
Both Candido Méndez as Ignacio Fernández Toxo acknowledged the alarm that this and other corruption scandals created on citizens. Mendez did not prejudge the performance of the affected members, five in total only Martinez had organizational responsibilities today. In his view, the resignation answered “ethical responsibility” and the implied “one can not deduce who has made a reprehensible use” card.
After speaking briefly with Benedict, said the Toxo resigned “I did not know how and what accounted for tax purposes” was the use of this card and denied that the money was diverted to the coffers of the union. “I feel great frustration that episodes like this, move to social criticism.”
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