Bárcenas 'admitted to illegal financing of PP', claims Spanish national newspaper
Monday, July 8, 2013 @ 5:41 PM
EX-TREASURER of the PP Luis Bárcenas has allegedly owned up to 'illegal' financing of the party by companies in exchange for preferential treatment, according to the editor of a leading Spanish national daily newspaper.
The normally right-wing broadsheet El Mundo published an article this week by its leader Pedro J Ramírez, who had held a four-hour interview with the former senator just days before the latter was sent to jail based upon the judge's opinion that he was a flight risk.
“Bárcenas explained to me, in the course of a long conversation, that for at least the last 20 years the PP had been financed illegally, receiving donations in cash from construction firms and other business-owners who, in turn, obtained contracts for jobs awarded by government departments led by the party,” Ramírez claimed in his article.
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