Panama Papers, Soria after his resignation: “No rode an offshore company to hide money”
Soria claims to have “remembered” the existence of societies Jersey and the Bahamas between Wednesday and Friday when he held talks with lawyers for the family business at the time.
The Spanish former Minister of Industry, José Manuel Soria. Soria claims to have “remembered” the existence of societies Jersey and the Bahamas between Wednesday and Friday when he held talks with lawyers for the family business at the time.
The former minister said that between “Wednesday and Friday reminded me of that time lawyers the existence of this society, which was established in 1993 but was for four years without activity.” Soria said his lawyers told him that “you do not remember that was mounted because the company had activity there, but of course Twenty years later how I would remember!”
The former minister, however, justified his public appearances this week saying that “what was certain when they pulled this is that Panama had never had anything, but now that’s already less,” he lamented.
“If you ride an offshore company to hide, what you do is never put your name” justified the former minister in a veiled Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro message, with which it already held heavy fighting during the pendency of the so-called reform energy.
The canary politician also defended his public speeches explaining that “can not be more transparency. If you click directly on the Internet, get my name in that society, in the English Commercial Register, because in turn that company participated in other”.
Soria explained that society Jersey “we use only a year in 1997 and 1998 and these companies when they are four years asleep have to liquidate, and a lawyer of these would me a role in settlement in 2002, it signed and out “. However, the former minister did not resist to leave the government “because it was already formed the mess and could cause problems to the Party”.
Conversation with Rajoy
Soria said the Thursday night had a conversation with Mariano Rajoy to discuss the situation and inform the Prime Minister of his intention to resign.
After listening to his explanations, always depending on the version of Soria, Rajoy expressed his support and told him to “make the decision you make, I’ll support.”
Seven public appearances, five days and four versions later, Jose Manuel Soria announced Friday morning his resignation as Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism functions and its abandonment of political life.
The output of Executive Mariano Rajoy occurs after became public its presence in Panama and called papers that came to light their participation in family enterprises located in tax havens. In a statement written by the Soria himself, he justified the abandonment of their posts by the “succession of errors made over the past few days regarding my explanations of my previous business activities to my entry into politics in 1995″ .
Contradictory versions offered by Soria had complicated his position on the Executive, where the initial support turned to doubts gave way to indignation, according to senior officials privately admitted the government. The strongest was Montoro: “No one who has operated from tax havens can it be in the government,” settled in the press conference after a Cabinet
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The final trigger for the resignation of Soria was the publication Thursday of information that the definitive connection between the former minister and offshore Bahamas the “roles of Panama” through a society in Jersey, a paradise land tax under jurisdiction British.
According to the documentation, the true owners of the company, Mechanical Trading Limited, were Soria and his brother Luis Alberto, who remained camouflaged from 1993 to 2002 behind a network of front men created by a subsidiary of BBV based on the British island of the Channel La Mancha.
These documents were the straw that broke the camel confidence of his party, already battered to changing explanations and former minister. Throughout Thursday several members of the Executive functions were transferred to Mariano Rajoy their discomfort with this situation, raising the pressure on Soria, which early on Friday called on the President to communicate its decision to abandon the performance of their political duties.
As explained sources close to the former minister, he made the decision the night before, while preparing for his appearance in the House to explain his relationship with the “roles of Panama” finally suspended.
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