“Investigators calculate that she and other family members accumulated about $24 million, mostly from shady land deals during Spain’s boom years. Searching her property, the police had to borrow a bill-counting machine from a local bank to help total up all the cash: $485,000. At a time when Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal are imposing deficit-cutting austerity plans on their hard-pressed citizens, these revelations of widespread political corruption are stoking bitter resentment, destabilizing governments and undermining the credibility of the political class as a whole.”
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
(Visited 27 times, 1 visits today)
Related posts:
China Gold-Mine Deals at Record After Price Plunge
Indiscriminate surveillance fosters distrust, conformity and mediocrity: research
Piedmont Boy, 3, Gets $2,500 Ticket For Urinating In His Front Yard
NYPD informant who tracked militants quits, denounces police
Victim in bra-shakedown case: Officer got off easy
Egypt’s interim authorities extend state of emergency
Gold Mining Deals Seen Rebounding on Price Discount
Half of families suffer in NHS hospitals, study finds
Dodd-Frank Creates A Prebuilt Loan Predicament
Will civil war hit Afghanistan when the U.S. leaves?
Aging Chinese apologize for their roles in the Cultural Revolution
US 'told Syria rebels' to seek intervention
PetroChina to join Exxon on giant Iraqi oilfield
Rare trees turned into firewood as Syrian civilians struggle for warmth
RNC members tackle Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA