Filed charges against former head of House of the King of Spain – El Universal (Venezuela)

Madrid .- The judge in the case called the “black card” in Spain investigating the alleged use of credit cards undeclared between the dome of the entity Caja Madrid, filed today the case against twelve of the defendants, including the former head of the Casa del Rey, Rafael Spottorno.

The judge of the Audiencia Nacional Fernando Andreu said, not having served on the board of the former Caja Madrid or its audit committee, can not be accused of a crime of unfair administration, DPA reported.

With this decision, Andreu cut 81 to 55 initial suspects in this case, as it makes A few days decreed the file regarding prescription 14 other users.

The judge argues in its order that the former directors desimputados today “maintained an employment relationship as strictly dependent employees of Caja Madrid” and that receiving credit cards were part “of their employment or compensation package.”

They maintained, however, were held for profit to understand that they could obtain “a financial benefit from the commission of a crime. “

Spottorno 223,900 euros supposedly loaded to your card between 2003 and 2010, a period in which he was president of the Caja Madrid Foundation. In a statement released in October he said he did not misuse the visa.

After being in front of the Casa del Rey in 2011-2014, during the last period of the reign of Juan Carlos I, outbreak of the scandal led him to resign as privy councilor of Felipe VI, saying it did not want to compromise the image of the new monarch.

cards Caja Madrid were used by former directors and former directors of the entity for more than a decade. They were charged in total over 15 million in personal expenses such as lunches and dinners at restaurants, tours or shopping malls.

Andreu recalls in the car released today that visas “were granted outside the regular circuit card company granting entity “and that the designation of beneficiaries and the amount was allocated to provide” without any contractual support “and not declared to the tax.

Between the defendants in the case are former IMF managing director Rodrigo Rato, who was president of Caja Madrid and Bankia, and his predecessor at the head of the organization, Miguel Blesa.