The Economy Minister Luis de Guindos, today denied having advised the former minister and president of Bankia Rodrigo Rato before the FROB sent for the “blackout” to the prosecution, cards so he could return the money spent .
“Not at all,” said the Minister of Economy told reporters when asked if Rato warned about this matter and has refused to confirm if you hold conversations with him, because, he warned, “those are personal questions” when you do not think “enter”. Nor was there, said a warning by the FROB to Rato, who was reportedly told by the Bankia own.
“The FROB not told anyone at all was Bankia who warned,” has insisted the Minister of Economy, who at the question again about whether there was any personal communication Rato said: “no, not at all”
In addition, and due to the complaint by Rato. Here, Luis de Guindos has expressed “absolute respect” for justice and noted that the FROB “absolutely will collaborate with justice.”
The National Court judge Fernando Andreu has called defendants to testify as presidents of Caja Madrid Miguel Blesa and Rodrigo Rato, and the former Director General of the entity Ildefonso Sánchez Barcoj on Thursday October 16 after the scandal of the opaque cards.
Rato returned to early summer had 54837.12 euros charged Bankia by using these cards and others are left to return 44,200 euros of which had taken over Caja Madrid.
The FROB send OTP 20 CaixaCatalunya operations and NCG
The Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring (FROB) sent to the Office, “in the coming days,” twenty operations “potentially irregular” detected in Catalunya Caixa (CX) and Novogalicia Bank (NCG) for investigation.
This was stated by Minister of Economy, Luis de Guindos, during the session of Government control in the full Congress, where UPyD spokeswoman, Rosa Díez, has asked that requires “economic criminal, political and” those responsible for the scandal card ‘B’ Caja Madrid.
The minister pointed out that since months FROB is holding in nationalized entities forensics process to “detect potentially irregular transactions”, a result of which previously reported to the Office of 19 “suspicious transactions”, including the opaque cards.
“Right now, it is well advanced the study of about 20 cases involving CX and NCG, all in connection with credit transactions and real estate, to be submitted to the Office in coming days,” he apostille.
Ministry sources confirm that this twenty operations are part of the 90 opaque transactions detected by the FROB, whose explanation was commissioned the services of forensic analysis of KPMG, Deloitte and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Your technical experts in “financial procedures and computer research to prevent, detect or investigate fraud” are reviewing each of the dossier which initially opened the nationalized entities.
Economy detailed that the bulk of the operations will now be sent to the attorney are the property sector, the local origin of the debacle suffered by Spanish financial institutions.
forensic experts consulting departments indicate that a typical case of fraud as those under investigation consist of an agreement between the company responsible for the buyer of land, which makes it a low cost to sell soon after the entity for an amount much higher, dividing benefits.
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