Spain is Different

Urdangarín – son in law of the Spanish King Juan Carlos I- presumed master in Influence Peddling and paradigm of tolerated white collar corruption in a country where Justice is just a name, not an application..

Quote from Internet:

“The King of Spain’s son-in-law was at the center of a corruption storm today as he came under investigation for siphoning off public money.

Inaki Urdangarin - the husband of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia's youngest daughter Infanta Cristina - is suspected of misappropriating cash paid into an NGO.

The former handball player now faces a possible interrogation by investigating judge Jose Castro and risks causing huge embarrassment for the royals.

It is claimed that his non-profit company, Instituto Noos, was given an enormous 2.3million euros (just under £2million) by the Balearic Islands’ regional government to organise two conferences on tourism and sport in 2005 and 2006. “ Unquote.

Iñaki is one of the visible points of an enormous Spanish iceberg, full of Influence Peddling and Real-Estate Corruption together with political jobbery and public/private jeopardizing spending habits.

The corruption is so wide-spread that the Spanish population has almost accepted it as a tolerated vice, linked with politicians, without solution and without the corresponding legal punishment.

The 15-M movement, which started precisely in Spain, declared war against this rotten system and asking for REAL DEMOCRACY and transparency in the number 31 least corrupt country in the world..

From Internet quote:

“SPAIN is more corrupt than Uruguay, Chile and the United Arab Emirates.

According to Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index Spain is the 31st least corrupt country in the world just one place ahead of Botswana and neighboring Portugal.

The Index ranks countries and territories according to their perceived levels of public sector corruption with Somalia, North Korea and Myanmar topping the list, while the least corrupt countries are New Zealand, Denmark and Finland.” Unquote.

Not to be proud of and the cases that are publically known include Ministers, Police Departments, Justice, Mayors, Regional Presidents and many other public servers.

I quote from Internet again:

“The fiscalia general del estado, the Public Prosecutor, says that there is “sufficient evidence” for the Supreme Court to open an official investigation into the nefarious doings of the soon to be ex-Minister of Development, government spokesman and number 2 of the PSOE party, José Blanco, and has submitted an official request for the S.C. to appoint a Judge to lead an investigation.

You will remember that a chap who ended up in court on a number of charges recently turned Kings Evidence and handed over a number of, ah hem, incriminating records to the Judge, showing that he and his mates had been paying large kickbacks to Blanco in exchange for lucrative government contracts.” Unquote.

The list is so large, including many high post officials, even the case of the Vice Delegate of the Andalucía Government Miguel Ángel Domínguez) paying a brothel bill with a government VISA card (not a single case..).

No prosecution for these guys, no public trial nor dismissing: with a politicized Justice (see what happened with the legalization of the terrorist organization ETA through AMAIUR and the acceptance of the Catalonian Basic Law that sets the bases for a future Independency), the tolerance is complete and no action is required.

In any other democratic country, where Justice is just Justice and blind to political interests, these actions would have been stopped immediately, imposing strong punishments to the involved white collar thieves.

Nothing of this will happen in Spain: all swindle and corruption acts (especially from the progressive wing) will be backed by “political justifications” or stored into a, to be forgotten, file.

Minister Blanco should have dismissed and be processed. Urdangarin should have stepped aside from his position and be processed. The future will tell, but probably both “gentlemen” will suffer minor consequences from their presumed multi-million swindle acts and life goes on…

Yes, Spain is different..

JPB