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Spain’s Supreme Court has sentenced former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos, once a senior figure in Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party (PSOE), to 24 years in prison for his role in a corruption scheme linked to the award of face mask contracts during the COVID-19 pandemic. The court also sentenced his former aide Koldo García to 19 years in prison and businessman Víctor de Aldama to four and a half years.
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The court found that Ábalos received a series of benefits in exchange for promoting business interests. These included a monthly payment of €10,000 for what were described as his “fixed expenses”, the payment of housing costs for a person in his inner circle and the hiring of two women linked to the former minister at public companies overseen by the Transport Ministry.
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The Supreme Court’s decision is particularly significant because it is the first major final conviction involving a former senior member of Sánchez’s administration.
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Germany should take notes
But our corrupt politicians are right-wing so they stand obviously above the law (and any form of consequences)…
Corrupt politicians, no matter which side of the political spectrum, never got any other than positive monetary consequences from their corruption here. No crow pecks out another crow’s eye.
Spain too. There’s massively egregious corruption cases in the conservative party, much worse than this one. But the justice friends keep delaying or ignoring those. But if it’s about indicting a socialist based in a third hand unconfirmed rumor, they can do that in a week.
The Netherlands too, the politicians in our scandal got off Scott free
We don’t have that here