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In Spain detained the mayor of Granada on charges of corruption

В Испании задержали мэра Гранады по обвинениям в коррупции

The members of the conservative people’s party, is still considered to be ruling in Spain, I can not get rid of their haunting rock: increasing from NP detained on charges of corruption. According to the newspaper El Mundo, this time the police came to the mayor of Granada Jose Torres Hurtado.

According to police, in 2006, Hurtado gave the territory intended to create a Park of children’s amusements, a private company that had built a nightclub there. The investigation lasted two years, initially the police thought that the city’s decision was based only on “technical reports”, but then it turned out that it was taken “consciously, with full understanding of the illegality of such action”.

In addition to the mayor’s guards also detained several of his advisors. Their homes were searched.

In Spain, for various cases of corrupt practices are over 3 thousand people. Most often they involve policy-conservatives. So, former Ambassador of Spain in India Gustavo de Aristegui and MP NP Pedro Gomez de La the Chamois, is suspected of receiving millions in fees in exchange for foreign contracts. The former head of the provincial Council of Valencia and the former head of the NP in the province Alfonso Rus is really about the money laundering. The former head of the International monetary Fund Rodrigo Rato is accused of tax evasion, money laundering and misappropriation of property.

Fraud suspected players of football club “Barcelona” Neymar and Lionel Messi, Opera singer Montserrat caballé. After the publication of “the Panama document” about offshore accounts law-enforcement agencies are interested in Director Pedro Almodovar.

But the scandal touched sister of the king of Spain – Infanta Cristina. It is suspected of involvement in the machinations of her husband Inaki Ochoa urdangarin, who, according to investigators, assigned more than 6 million euros from funds allocated by the regional governments of the Balearic Islands and Valencia to organize sports events.

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