TOP POLITICIAN ‘ACCUSED’ IN MASSIVE EURO MONEY FRAUD IN SPAIN
April 1st, 2013
THE PRESIDENT of the Andalucía regional government in Spain has been publicly accused of being a key figure in a EUR130 million-plus scandal involving the alleged fraudulent use of Spanish public and European Union (EU) funds. In a case rocking the socialist party the PSOE, the main opposition in the national government, investigating judge Mercedes Alaya has ordered that Andalucía’s former director general of employment, Francisco Javier Guerrero, should remain in jail without bail. Meanwhile, Operation Heracles, a widespread wave of arrests and evidence ...
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