The Audiencia Nacional has now published its sentencing for the Gürtel
Inquiry. The leader of the group is Francisco Correa, who masterminded the
network, and he has been handed down 51 years. The ex-treasurer for the PP,
Luis Bárcenas, gets 33 years and must pay some 44 million euros in fines. His
wife Rosalía Iglesias (significantly, as Barcenas has threatened to ‘reveal all’
if she were sent to prison), received 15 years jail. The Partido Popular ‘...as
a legal entity, benefited financially from Gürtel’s corrupt practices. It has
been sentenced to pay €245,492...’ (Says El
País in English here). In all, 29 people, all PP members, received sentences
varying from 51 years to (in one case) just five months (here).
President Mariano Rajoy brushed aside the issue – ‘The PP is much more than a few
isolated cases of corruption’, he said.
Pablo Iglesias has already proposed a vote of confidence and says his Union Podemos would
support Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) for president. Ciudadanos has yet to respond...
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