Madrid .- The investigation into the former vice president of the Spanish Government and former director general of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Rodrigo Rato, prosecutors charged with five offenses, money laundering and concealment of assets, will be handed the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor for “the special social, media and legal significance of the facts”.
This is stated in the decree signed Monday by the general state prosecutor, Consuelo Madrigal, which also notes that the case “is expected particularly complex, in view of the structure of the corporate network and legal forming the group of companies allegedly controlled by Rodrigo Rato “, DPA reported.
The judge in which he fell on Friday the complaint filed by the Office of Madrid against the former director of the IMF was inhibited Monday in favor of Judge Fernando Andreu of the National Court, which investigates corruption cases which is charged Rato.
The former financial vice-president during the government of José María Aznar was arrested last Thursday as the Tax Office agents searched his home and his office.
The daily World published the weekend that Rato has assets of 27 million euros would not have declared in whole or in tax amnesty that the government of Mariano Rajoy adopted in 2012, which the former minister refused.
Spanish media noted Friday that Rato could have woven a “complex corporate network” in several countries, including several tax havens to avoid foreclosures for his alleged role in the so called “Bankia case”, in which the judge imposed a bond of 800 million euros.
Rato is charged in this case, investigating alleged irregularities in the IPO of Bankia entity, of which he was president until 2012.
He faces charges for allegedly Credit card use undeclared between the dome of Bankia and Caja Madrid, the entity that resulted in the first after its merger with other savings.
The decree signed by the State Attorney General recalled that Rato is accused in these cases and that they “may derive pecuniary liabilities alleged that the accused had sought to avoid.”
Instruction 4/2006 regulates the functions and organization of the Special Prosecutor for the suppression of economic crimes related to corruption and organized crime. The text itself provides that either the Attorney General of the State to resolve “disputes” that may occur within the Public Prosecutor during an investigation, the newspaper ABC of Madrid.
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