Spain PM knew of payoffs in party: Former treasurer
The former finance chief for Spain's ruling Popular Party says Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was aware of the payoffs to the party members “from the very beginning.”
On Friday, Luis Barcenas said the ruling party officials had received regular payoffs, adding that all his claims are based on facts.
“The accounts are reliable from first to last, [and] there is nothing that does not correspond to the real world,” he stated.
Barcenas, who was jailed in 2013 over charges of financial corruption, was released on a USD 228,000 bail on Thursday.
The Spanish judiciary says the former Popular Party treasurer has accumulated around USD 45 million of illegal money in Switzerland.
The rampant corruption cases in Rajoy’s government have sparked anger among people in Spain who suffer from high unemployment rate, harsh cutbacks in social welfare and an ailing economy.
Back in November 2014, Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato resigned after an investigating judge accused her of gaining financial benefits from a bribe scheme that involved her former husband.
According to a government poll taken in 2013, Spaniards consider corruption as the second-biggest problem in the country after unemployment.
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