A judge of the Spanish National Court ruled today the commencement of a trial for forty accused in a corruption case, including three extesoreros People’s Party (center right) and the training itself, which currently governs in Spain.
Among those who go to trial also included the former Minister of Health Ana Mato who, like the PP, could have profited from the activities of the corrupted frame.
This is the called “Gürtel case” judicial inquiry into alleged corruption by rigged contracts entrepreneurs and individuals related to PP.
Judge Pablo Ruz today issued the resolution after the Criminal Division of the National Court rejected the last appeal against his decision to judgment these 40 accused to understand that there are “sharp” evidence against them.
In order to commence trial judge imposes civil bonds totaling 449 million euros for 36 of them and the highest is for extesorero the PP Luis Barcenas, who shall deposit 88 million in court.
As for the alleged perpetrator of the plot, Francisco Correa, will to deposit sixty million euros.
A mid-January the Anticorruption Prosecutor Spanish called for 42 and a half in prison for Luis Barcenas years for crimes such as money laundering, bribery, embezzlement and misappropriation under the “Gürtel case.”
To Correa claimed the highest penalty, 125 years, trespass, fraud, bribery, forgery, embezzlement, fraud, conspiracy, tax fraud, money laundering and influence peddling.
In the case of PP, the Office understands that profited from the profits made by companies Correa and his collaborators in several municipalities, which requires a deposit of 245,000 euros.
Regarding the Mato exministra, who resigned last November, asking 28,467 euros because he believes that benefited from the gifts that the plot Gürtel made her ex-husband, who was mayor of a town near Madrid and also among the accused.
In addition to Barcenas, go to trial extesoreros PP Angel Sanchis and Alvaro Lapuerta.
The National Court began to instruct six years is cause in which activities are investigating the plot Gürtel between 1999 and 2005.
This piece of Gürtel judge the acts committed by the plot during the early years and operations are limited to three Spanish regions.
Between the accused also featured a former senator, former councilors, businessmen and the wives of some defendants, Rosalia Iglesias, Barcenas woman for whom a bond of twenty million is requested.
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