MEXICO CITY (CNNExpansión) – Rodrigo Rato, former IMF chief, said he has “actively participated” with investigators searched his home and his office, as part of a complaint against him in Spain.
On Thursday Madrid Prosecution filed a complaint against Rato for alleged money laundering and other crimes. Agents of the Inland Revenue recorded for three hours Rato’s home and then led the former IMF to his office, where another review was conducted, sources and witnesses told Reuters.
After midnight, Rato was returned by the agents home and told the Spanish media that has “full confidence in the judicial system.”
Rato, who was number two in the conservative government of José María Aznar, said that is good and who is willing to testify, but declined to provide details about the investigation against him because of the secrecy teaser, which is when a judge decides to secret proceedings and investigations of a case, according to El Pais.
It is expected that in the coming time will make a third record in another owned by former IMF chief.
Considered one of the candidates to take over the country in 2000, Rato, who was disgraced by scandals related nationalized bank Bankia, is back in the spotlight of justice for case of money, fraud and concealment of assets laundering, indicates AFP.
According to the IRS, may have tried to hide funds to prevent them from being seized by the courts.
The “best finance minister” who has known Spain, he said José María Aznar, is investigated along with other 80 managers have paid personal expenses with a “ghost” corporate cards Bankia, opaque to the Treasury .
Rato had traveled in 2012 under the shouts of angry protesters few yards to your drive from the entrance of the National Court, as is also accused of fraud, misappropriation, accounting offenses, forgery documentary and unfair administration, in other research on entry into Bankia bag.
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