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Senior Junta politician cracks under police pressure and admits 270 million euro theft

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The sheer amount of money stolen by the Andalucian politicians over the last decade is immense. So far, we’re talking billions of euros, mainly of EU cash. Nobody seems to care very much, but it is a fairly enormous scandal. Basically, for every euro the EU sent Andalucia over the last 20 years or so, the politicians seem to have happily, and with no real comeback, pocketed whatever percentage they wanted to. Anyway, Carlos Cañavate, Continue reading Senior Junta politician cracks under police pressure and admits 270 million euro theft→

That “boredom of an ERE” complains the [male chauvinist pig] Andalucian Minister of Justice in Parliament

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The Andalucian Minister of Justice (hah!) has publicly brushed off an MP’s question about the ERE scandal as another question about “that boredom of the ERE” (ese rollo de los ERE), despite the fact that we’re talking about the corrupt misspending of up to a billion euros of public money by corrupt politicians buying off friends and foes. The following is a bunch of technical terms translated from the most boring of technical Spanish legalese Continue reading That “boredom of an ERE” complains the [male chauvinist pig] Andalucian Minister of Justice in Parliament→

Anticorruption group launches criminal corruption complaint against Andalucia President & ministers involved in ERE case

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Manos Limpias, the national group dedicated to fighting corruption in public office, has announced that they have lodged a personal criminal complaint (querella) against Jose Griñán (President of Andalucía), Manuel Chaves (ex-President of Andalucía and third VP of Spain under Zapatero in the last government), and the Andalucian ex-ministers Gaspar Zarrías and José Antonio Viera. The complaint alledges that the politicians spent hundreds of millions of euros of public funds via slush funds in paying Continue reading Anticorruption group launches criminal corruption complaint against Andalucia President & ministers involved in ERE case→

New Andalucian Minister for Justice is the same bloke who was in charge of “Corruption in the Junta” investigation…

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Does that make sense? I think it makes sense. Anyway, the new Minister for Justice in Griñán’s new Junta de Andalucía is Emilio de Llera , the man who is also the prosecutor general of Seville. Emilio was the man in charge of investigation the ERE pension scandal currently rocking the Junta (where the Junta has been accused of spending hundreds of millions in a slush fund to pay off union leaders, ex-politicians and generally Continue reading New Andalucian Minister for Justice is the same bloke who was in charge of “Corruption in the Junta” investigation…→