‘Treasury denies fiscal amnesty to Bárcenas and accuses him of ‘ruse’’

Published on 5 February 2013 at 09:44

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A tax declaration by former People’s Party (PP) treasurer Luis Bárcenas has been rejected by the Treasury, over claims he used front companies to launder illegal money from Swiss accounts and tried to profit from a fiscal amnesty introduced in 2012 by Mariano Rajoy’s government.
Bárcenas is at the centre of a corruption scandal involving key members of the PP, who allegedly received additional undeclared payments.

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