Rato, we only stayed about twenty minutes inside the courthouse in Madrid’s Plaza de Castilla, “he took advantage of their right not to testify but was willing to cooperate with justice and to go to court many times as required” judicial sources said.
banker and former Conservative leader wants to first know the new report by the Anti-Fraud Office on the material seized in his home and professional office last April 16, when he was arrested briefly in the context of this research, and the day Next, the sources said.
The first report by the National Bureau of Fraud Investigation (ONIF), that supported the arrest of Rato appreciated tax crimes, money laundering and concealment of assets.
However, for the moment, and due to receive a new report, the judge number 31 of Madrid, Antonio Serrano Artal, summoned as witnesses former financial vice-president José María Aznar (1996-2004) to answer only for tax offenses.
Amid extensive media expectation, Rato agreed to the courts in the car reserved for court employees garage, something very unusual but the judge allowed after an incident with former president Caja Madrid Miguel Blesa, who was attacked with a banner for bank fraud affected by the preferred (toxic products).
A small group of people with placards in their hands with the “preferred Scam” slogans and “Justice now”, who were shortchanged by Caja Madrid and Bankia, the entity that was chaired by Rato, waiting for the doors the courts to rebuke him shouting “thief”, but just saw happen once powerful banker and leader of the Popular Party (PP).
The judge had called Rato to testify at 11 am ( 6 Argentina), subpoena former minister said cope with “full confidence in Justice” as told EFE.
Despite these claims, Rato reported on Thursday that was being “subjected to a political hunt ever seen.”
“I am a citizen who does not know what or who accused because nobody takes responsibility, “he said to the TV channel Cuatro.
Yesterday, Section 23 of the Provincial Court of Madrid upheld the deposit 18 million euros imposed Rato considering that there “sufficient evidence” that the former IMF chief “could incur” in the alleged commission of criminal offenses alleged against him.
In its ruling, the court states that the prosecution accused Rato evasion, laundering and concealment of assets (concealment) but at least the latter offense is ruled out for now.
However, it stressed that the investigation is “nascent” and that precautionary measures are “appropriate” due to the “complexity of the case”, which is derived from “web of corporations governed and managed directly or indirectly “by the former minister, and” many others have been able to intervene and take part in this framework “.
The arrest of Rato, who became the first concerning the financial establishment to fall from the onset of the financial and economic crisis in Spain, rushed after the Spanish press brought to light that the banker and former minister on the list of 705 people investigated by the Executive Service Laundering Prevention and Capiales (Seplac) all that had adhered to the tax amnesty the current Executive of Mariano Rajoy.
According to the first report of the ONIF, former president of the financial institution Bankia would have evaded tax in the personal income tax (earnings) and Tax. Inspectors Rato attributed to assets of 26.6 million euros and said that he and his company had “a high financial traffic” with tax havens, according to the details of the document published by the local press.
The former IMF chief also accused in two other cases: an alleged fraud in connection with the IPO of Bankia, entity presided, and the abuse of “black cards” on the bank and its predecessor, Caja Madrid.
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