corruption
December 21st, 2009
The national court judge Baltasar Garzon has set a bail of 500,000 euros for the former mayor of Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona), Bartomeu Munoz, accused in the urban corruption scandal known as "operation Pretoria". According to his lawyer however, the former mayor has no ability to pay this amount ...
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December 22nd, 2009
After a judge set bail of half a million euros yesterday for the former mayor of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, friends and relatives of Bartomeu Munoz have raised more than half the required amount, 270,000 euros. Munoz is one of the main accused in the corruption scandal known as 'Pretoria'. The ...
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December 23rd, 2009
The former mayor of Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona) Bartomeu Munoz has now met his bail through a "public collection" of 500,000 euros, after being recently jailed in connection with corruption scandal "Pretoria". Fermín Morales, the former mayor's lawyer, explained that this morning, money raised by contributions was paid in cash ...
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January 24th, 2010
69% of the companies listed on the IBEX-35 continue to operate in tax havens and none of the companies in this index provide information, broken down by country, on the amounts of money paid to political parties, according to a
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April 21st, 2010
Juan Antonio Samaranch, honorary president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has died at the age of 89 years after suffering a cardiac arrest at 13:25 today in Chiron Hospital, Barcelona. Samaranch had been admitted to hospital on Sunday because of heart problems. His funeral will take place tomorrow morning ...
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September 27th, 2010
Almost 100 defendants, including two former mayors, have appeared in court in the Spanish city of Malaga for the first day of one of the country's biggest ever corruption trials. The scandal, which broke in March 2006, centres on the alleged payment of millions of euros in bribes to city officials ...
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October 7th, 2010
A Judge in Murcia has ordered the three men arrested in an alleged case of corruption in Murcia, Spain, to be detained unless bail sums were obtained. Renato de Noce (Town engineer), has to pay €120,000, Higinio Pérez Mateos (lawyer) must find €100,000 and Alberto Guerra, in charge of the ...
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November 19th, 2010
A judge in this southern resort city of Marbella has levied a surety of more than 60 million euros on actor Sean Connery and the other principal defendants in a corruption case. In addition, under indictment in the case are Connery’s wife, former Marbella Mayor
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