Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Some 80 defendants in the case of opaque cards – swissinfo.ch

Some 80 defendants in the case of opaque cards – swissinfo.ch

The Spanish judge Fernando Andreu charged about 80 personalities of economic, trade union and political world Spanish Wednesday for allegedly using a dull the treasury cards in a case that also involved the former director of the IMF Rodrigo Rato.

Judge Fernando Andreu of the National Court charged with a crime of unfair administration or misappropriation, for the use of those cards, according to the court ruling released Wednesday. Twenty-seven of the 78 defendants are summoned to Andreu between 16 and 18 February.

These are former leaders and members of the board of the savings bank Caja Madrid, now the bank Bankia, after its merger with six other savings. The judge had already indicted in October, in addition to Rato, who led Caja Madrid and Bankia between 2010 and 2012, the financial former director of Caja Madrid, Barcoj Ildefonso Sanchez, and the president of Caja Madrid in 1996-2009, Miguel Blesa.

All the defendants received between 1999 and 2012 some credit cards Caja Madrid fiscally opaque, with which they made purchases worth 15.5 million euros.

The judge tries determine whether those costs actually correspond to representation allowance or used for personal purchases.

In the case of leaders, these cards were added to its official corporate card. The members of the board only had this card ‘B’, as called press, to pay their expenses.

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