Spain's ex-transport minister sentenced to 24 years for corruption
The court said the scheme won contracts for 13 million face masks and involved bribery, embezzlement and influence peddling.
- On Monday, Spain's Supreme Court sentenced former Spanish Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos to 24 years in prison for corruption linked to rigged pandemic-era contracts for medical masks during COVID-19.
- Judges found Abalos belonged to a criminal organization that profited from public spending during the COVID-19 emergency through bribery, embezzlement, and misuse of privileged information.
- The court sentenced former aide Koldo Garcia to 19 years in prison, while Businessman Victor de Aldama received a four-and-a-half-year sentence that the court suspended in recognition of his cooperation with investigators.
- Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's government faces deepened scrutiny as the Socialist Party confronts corruption allegations; the conviction marks the first verdict reaching the inner circle of Sanchez's administration.
- Despite the scandal, Sanchez has not been named in any graft cases and maintains the accusations are part of a campaign to oust him from power, though the right-wing opposition has seized on the conviction to demand early elections.
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Courrier internationalOn Monday 22 June, a month and a half after a highly publicized trial, José Luis Ábalos, a former high socialist official, was sentenced to 24 years in prison by the Spanish Supreme Court for corruption. The decision sounds like a deflagration in the press beyond Pyrénées. Source link : https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/justice-en-esspagne-l-ex-arms-droit-de-pedro-sanchez-lourdement-condamne-pour-corruption_245516 Author : Publisher …
In Spain, former Minister of Transport Ábalos has been sentenced to 24 years and three months in a corruption trial.
The Supreme Court (TS) has unanimously condemned former minister José Luis Ábalos, who was a trusted man of Pedro Sánchez in the PSOE, to 24 years and three months in prison for the "mascarillas case" for crimes of criminal organization, bribery, embezzlement and trading in influence. The sentence has fallen like a bomb in a day that had begun with the decision of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) to agree to issue to Judge Juan Carlos…
By Pau Mosquera and Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español. Pedro Sánchez, the Prime Minister of Spain, and his inner circle suffered two legal setbacks in less than three days, both for alleged acts of corruption. On Monday, Spain's Supreme Court sentenced former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos, Sánchez's right-hand man, to 24 years and three months in prison. Just on Saturday, a judge ordered the Prime Minister's wife, Begoña Gómez, to stand tria…
The former Spanish Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos, a key figure in Pedro Sánchez's rise to power, was sentenced on Monday to 24 years in prison for corruption, in a sentence that could weaken the socialist Prime Minister in the final challenge of his term. The Supreme Court condemned Ábalos for criminal organization, bribery, peculat and influence trafficking, in a case related to the purchase of masks during the Covid-19 pandemic, info…
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