Madrid, Aug 20 (EFE) .- The Judge “Rato case” will decide today if kept in prison Alberto Portuondo, administrator of the society through the screen Rodrigo Rato allegedly charged fees in exchange for awarding advertising contracts Bankia and was arrested on Sunday.
Portuondo appear in the courts of Plaza de Castilla before Judge Antonio Serrano-Arnal, that after listening to decide whether to ratify the arrest warrant issued on Sunday that his companion Court of Instruction No. 10, acting on duty that day.
The only administrator and liquidator was Albisa Investment arrested by the Civil Guard in Barajas airport as he prepared to travel to Mexico, country of residence, after spending their vacation in Spain, explained to Efe sources of research.
Before the risk that his return to that country was actually an escape and the danger that the arrest could destroy evidence, the prosecution of Madrid, in collaboration with Anti-Corruption, ended up ordering his entry into prison and the withdrawal of his passport.
Since the National Fraud Investigation Office (ONIF) alert in his latest report submitted to the court in late July that Rato could have been laundering money abroad, researchers put the focus on UCO Figure Portuondo.
According to investigators, the businessman, who paid consulting services to the presidency of Bankia while it was occupied by former IMF chief, could intercede for Zenith Media and Publicis Communications made with the help of advertising campaigns of the company in 2010 and 2011, leaving up to two million change in commissions.
Both companies multiplied its turnover to the entity under the mandate of Rato, and only Zenith It went from 150,000 euros in 2010 to 24,000,000 the next year and 16 million in 2012, year in which Juan Ignacio Gorigolzarri took the reins of the bank.
Of the two million in fees charged for services actually did not perform nearly one up in the hands of the company’s main Rato investigated Kradonara, which in turn would have diverted 420,000 euros to the German Bagerpleta GmbH, owner of a hotel in Berlin and the former Minister of Economy it has a 44%
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