Manuel Chaves - Guilty

[Beachcomber]

Subject line says it all:

https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20191 ... o-ere.html

What goes around comes around. Thieving git!

[costakid]

They had about a billion euros apparently between them.

[olive]

Nearly a billion euros of OUR money.

These spectacular thefts of OUR money always sound like it is someone elses money.

I saw the headlines but my thought is the sentences are not enough.

Did they recover any of our money?

[elusive]

Surprised they didnt get bigger sentences. All that effort.

[Beachcomber]

Some information in English on this caes here:

https://www.thelocal.es/20191119/ere-wh ... l-in-spain

Pablo Iglesias persuaded **** to present a motion of no confidence in Mariano Rajoy after the PP corruption case. I wonder if he will do the same now against his new coalition partner?

[maureenscot]

I take it there are more trials from the other divisions of this still to come. Does any of the corruption money ever get recovered? Yes, I agree the crimes were worse than the Catalans and they deserved higher sentences and should have been banned from public office for life.

[katy]

Nearly a billion euros of OUR money.

These spectacular thefts of OUR money always sound like it is someone elses money.

I saw the headlines but my thought is the sentences are not enough.

Did they recover any of our money?

A large amount of ERE funding came from the EU. I read that Brussels was going to reclaim some of it but it rarely happens.

[olive]

My point exactly.

It is all “ someone else’s money” when in reality it is our money.

I wish that the EU had a policy of demanding misappropriated money back from the countries that allowed it to be frittered away.. That would focus a few minds all round. This leakage is happening all over the EU but no one is leaping up and down about it apart from perhaps myself.