Rodrigo Rato research reaches Spanish Parliament – The Universal

 The case manager’s former director of the IMF Rodrigo Rato, with its political and judicial implications, reach the Spanish Parliament, where in the coming days there will be hearings and questions the Government of PP (center right) party in which Rato played for more than three decades.
 

 

 Last Thursday that brought the IMF (2004-07) and Spanish Minister of Economy (1996-2004) was detained for a few hours and its registered office and registered as part of an investigation of the Treasury for alleged laundering offenses laundering, fraud and lifting (concealment) of goods.
 

 

 From the left opposition Thursday responsibilities asked the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy and Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro.
 

 

 Rato both already included with the governments of Jose Maria Aznar and the two opposition accuses the adoption in 2012 a tax amnesty to the former director of the IMF was upheld and that alarmed the Spanish Treasury for the origin of goods.
 

 

 Government leaders and PP admit that if Rato affects the image of the party, five weeks of a regional and municipal elections, but strive to stress that if time has sinned, it has in private activities, not linked to the formation.
 

 

 However, the opposition wants to raise the issue in Parliament and on Tuesday and will appear before the Finance Committee of Congress general director of the Tax Agency, Santiago Menéndez, who could detail investigations on the former Minister of the Treasury.
 

 

 Also responsible AEAT could give details of the tax amnesty which Rato filed in 2012.
 

 

 Precisely the Socialists want a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the tax amnesty is believed and as other opposition parties they wish to make public the list of 705 people who benefited from the tax amnesty investigated by the Treasury and the only name that has transpired is the de Rato.
 

 

 Meanwhile, the PP refuses to give explanations about the allegations to former minister, who left last October militancy in that game.
 

 

 The current Minister of Health, Alfonso Alonso, says today in the pages of the newspaper El Correo, for whom the case of Rato “responds to a particular situation.”
 

 

 “His case shows that in Spain there is no one untouchable and state institutions operate independently,” said Alonso.
 

 

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