Madrid .- The Spanish government Friday distanced research on the heritage of the former director IMF chief Rodrigo Rato, trying to distance of a scandal affecting it was one of the pillars of the ruling Popular Party (PP).
The vice president, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, said that the case falls within the “private sphere” and that the Government intends to explain beyond a hearing on Tuesday the director of the Tax Office in Congress, Reuters reported.
Also, said that public institutions showed that work at a sensitive time for the two traditional political parties, PP and (PSOE) Socialist Party, which could suffer at the polls outrage from the public to the various political and financial scandals time.
Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro said that “no matter belonging to a party or not, the social significance or political significance or political or economic power one is allocated. We are all equal before the law and that is something that has to preserve and enforce a government. “
In the press conference after the Council of Ministers, Montoro which worked under de Rato years ago in the Economy Ministry said the investigation ordered by the Office of Madrid for the alleged crimes of money laundering, tax evasion and concealment of goods has to do with their assets abroad.
Speaking to the El País , Rato said Friday that it has Offshore companies, or in any country outside the European Union (EU ).
Unable to contact directly Rato or their legal representatives immediately.
The denunciation of the prosecution precipitated Thursday two separate records in the home and office of Rato, which were broadcast almost live by television amid a media frenzy in the nth scandal that affects the Spanish political class.
Today, Friday, former finance minister between 1996 and 2004 in the governments of the senses José María Aznar, returned to spend several hours in his office in the central and exclusive Salamanca district of Madrid, as agents of the Agency Tax, who serve as judicial police investigate their heritage.
The new legal front facing which was one of the most respected politicians of the first decade of the century in Spain comes at a time of great tension citizen by the proliferation of corruption in high places.
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