Rato The judge sends the case to the Court after new evidence of a crime – Reuters Spain

       

MADRID (Reuters) – The judge in charge of the investigation into alleged tax fraud and money laundering to the former director general of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Rodrigo Rato has referred the case to the High Court after the emergence of new evidence of a crime, judicial sources said on Friday.

       

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office asked the judge this week that inhibit the so-called “Rato case” after receiving a report from the National Bureau of Fraud Investigation (ONIF), which provided evidence of new crimes after entry and search carried out in the home office and also outside the financial vice-president of the Spanish government.

       

“Current indications now allow the prosecution to ask inhibition”, judicial sources told Reuters.

       

The National Court is the court to investigate crimes of particular relevance as related criminal activities overseas drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption or.

       

The Madrid magistrate had already been banned from the case in April in favor of the Court, although the anti-corruption prosecutor objected at the time.

       

The case will now be distributed among the six central courts of instruction that make up the National Court, according to the Superior Court in a note reported, although the car inhibition magistrate can be appealed.

       

The former director of the IMF manager has two other legal fronts open. It is one of the high charges brought by the High Court for an alleged fraud on the IPO of Bankia entity that presidió- in 2011.

       

In addition, Rato is also charged with the alleged misuse of credit cards under Caja Madrid and Bankia, also known as the ‘case of the black card’, which led him to stop being a militant of the Popular Party.

       

This and other corruption-related scandals have affected the image of the Popular Party in government, as the country prepares to hold general elections later this year.

       

The case of Rato, Minister of Economy of the PP government between 1996 and 2004, has particularly damaged the party and who was considered the architect of the “economic miracle” that Spain lived in those years.

       
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